Word: dogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have learned from my friends at the River that this phenomenon is not unique to the Quad. Rather, it is a problem wherever there is grass. Or, more appropriately, wherever there is a thawing after three solid months of unchecked dog-walking sans pooper-scoopers. The Cambridge Common is another such site where snow that once covered this putrid odor has now melted. So is the walkway from Leverett towers to Mather and Dunster...
Vicki, who has been dancing as if in a hallucinatory trance the whole time the train was passing, is now screaming at the top of her lungs, "Where's Sandino? Where's my dog? Is he still alive...
...coming back -- he ran after the train." Enter Sandino, performance star. He comes zooming down from an overpass, jumps a steep embankment, caroms mightily through the creek, stutter-steps around some sage and leaps onto Vicki. Vicki hugs her dog. The train is gone; the land is quiet again...
...dog and becomes a feminist terrorist...
...view, telling much of the story as developed by the state police investigation and dispensing considerable amounts of macabre station-house humor. He is also fond of old-fashioned hard- boiled detective prose: "Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel is less imaginative and stylish in her handling of a sensational case with TV-movie potential. She also has bad taste, quoting...