Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holly" Whyte, an irrepressible 71, has been lobbing potshots at purveyors of conventional wisdom about cities for more than 20 years. He started making waves in 1956 with his bestseller The Organization Man, one of the first exposes of the emptiness of corporate life. In 1974 the National Geographic Society awarded him its first domestic expedition grant to pursue his urban sleuthing...
Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) is a tidy bundle of compulsions, the kind of man who gets off on an improved filing system and looks forward to flossing his teeth. Hooch (a mastiff named Beasley) is a messy bundle of sinew and instinct, the kind of dog who lives to wreck your living room and looks forward to sinking his teeth into the necks of people he doesn't like. Also, he drools...
This is obviously not Lassie Come Home; it is the odd couple as crime busters. Turner is a small-town detective, an apt occupation for a man of his temperament. He has placed Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local...
...Less than half an hour later, there was a knock at the door. I cracked the door, and at that point he was opening the screen door and coming in and saying 'I have to talk to you.' It was the same man. His attitude was 'We don't want you here.' He commented that he had been shot by a black once. Then he started going into 'black trash' and so on and so forth. He let me know that if I decided to stay there, I would have to look forward to whatever happened and he would...
...Canadian fur trader Johnny Grant in 1862, became the center of open-range cattle operations owned by German immigrant Conrad Kohrs. The ranch ran herds on more than 10 million acres in four states and Alberta, an area nearly the size of Switzerland. "Grant was the last mountain man, and Kohrs the first cattle baron," says Lyndel Meikle, a park ranger who has spent twelve years studying the National Historic Site. When the Park Service took over in 1972, the 23-room ranch house was festooned with Victorian trappings and family photographs, just as it had been almost a century...