Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the first quarter started, I went into the stands for a hot dog. There's something peculiar about ball park hot dogs. You can see veins in them. That isn't right. I threw it away...
...FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps less social value have burst on the scene to entice us into the cool, dark air of the neighborhood cinema. These are movies about jes' plain folk who might live around the corner or across the state, silly stories of ordinary people who want to be rich so that they can be happy, happy in the American...
There are transitional cases, and most of them ride the Blue Line. They are going home, but from Wonderland or Suffolk Downs, and the older ones are beginning to look, well, sad. They leave before the last race at the dog track and walk out across the vast parking lot, clutching their superfecta tickets. Someone catches the finale and dashes out, just making the train. And though the men would rather go home not knowing, they always overhear. They had the 4-3-7-1, and wouldn't you know it, they came...
...film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis seems no surer of his visual style than he does of his movie's tone, so he tries everything: shots angled from a dog's-or a god's-eye view, eerily lighted special effects, more dancers, more extras, more noise, more cars and car crashes. Alas, more is less, and The Blues Brothers ends up totaling itself...
...Island to pick up the Sunday papers, former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay had an unexpected run-in with a non-voter. The cyclist, a distinct long shot in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, swerved his ten-speed to avoid a charging dog. Too late. The angry dog rammed into the underdog's front wheel and sent Lindsay hurtling over his handle bars. Grounded with a fractured collarbone, he noted wryly: "This is not the kind of break that a candidate hopes...