Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left corner and was spilled going for the puck. She then skated towards the slot where she was promptly dumped in front by a Bowdoin player a foot taller than she and twice stopped Polar Bear rushes by keeping the puck in the zone. "Instead of calling her "Mad Dog," we ought to call her "Mad Crease," D'Souza said...Harvard closes out its regular season when it plays Dartmouth Wednesday, after which it hosts the Ivy League tournament...
...letter to The Crimson, Spitzer said when she was in college she telephoned a fake bomb threat "as a joke in honor of Guy Fawkes' Day." But she said jokes can get out of hand. Because of the missing four-foot-high gate, her dog escaped Sunday morning and was almost hit by a car, she said in the letter...
...place of the heavy wooden gate, Levine and Spitzer have posted a hand-lettered sign reading, "Please bring our gate back. It protects the dog from getting hit by a car and will cost us hundreds of dollars to replace. Please, please, give it back...
Leave it to a man named Lasse to direct the most scrupulously endearing Dog movie of the '80s. Hallstrom's hero is twelve-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), a dour, dimpled soul who could live by the maxim: Expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed. A tabloid junkie, Ingemar scans headlines for catastrophes that might put his own aggrieved existence into perspective. Reading them helps Ingemar shrug off his own doglike life: "It could have been worse." So his Mom is ailing, and his beloved pooch is sent on a terminal vacation, and the town's toughest athlete...
Easy to see why My Life as a Dog was last year's most popular foreign- language film in the U.S. For all its hints of death and humiliation, the picture has a jaunty air -- a Truffaut paean to childhood, set to a silly, danceable beat. In this village everyone is ripe for fond laughter: the uncle whose rapport with Ingemar puts his wife at a distance; the old lodger whose only pleasure is reading lingerie ads; the tomboy who bandages her breasts to masquerade for a last summer as one of the boys. At the picture's heart...