Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire hydrant. You guessed it. Doggie Adventure (price: $14.95) is a videocassette designed to relieve canine boredom when a dog is left home alone. Says Harley Toberman, the film's creator: "I always knew that dogs watched TV, but usually there's nothing worthwhile for them to watch." Sometimes man and beast face a similar dilemma...
...might buy slapstick from this man, but would you buy stock? Funnyman Mel Brooks, 63, said last week that his production company, Brooksfilms, plans a public offering to raise cash for movie and TV projects. The company earned a mere $323,000 in fiscal 1989 and may lose money in 1990. Comedy is hot today, but Brooks may be running out of gas. He has had no major hit since Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974, which reaped a total of more than $86 million in North America alone...
...Bush, a man most comfortable with the prudent and predictable, the desire to give ballast to the wildly careening events of recent weeks may have been one reason he arrived in Malta with a long list of concrete proposals. Bush also seemed determined to prove to public opinion in the U.S. and Europe that the American President was just as committed to building the peace as his popular Soviet counterpart...
...several passes before it connected successfully with the American warship. Eventually the weather forced cancellation of the afternoon session and the joint dinner planned for that night. Bush was left stranded on the Belknap, looking helplessly over the short distance of rough water that separated him from Gorbachev, the man he had traveled thousands of miles...
...State Department last year described it as "the most dangerous terrorist organization in existence." Its leader is possibly the world's most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo...