Word: mastiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size, $6; smaller version supplied gratis with $5 membership in the fan club) is curling at the edges. Maybe the battery in her portable radio has failed right in the middle of the station's 14th daily airing of Shaun Cassidy's latest hit. Maybe the family mastiff took a nap atop Shaun's two albums (combined sales: 5 million copies), warping them into a couple of vinyl flapjacks. Maybe the picture tube in the TV blew out, and she will miss Shaun in this week's installment of The Hardy Boys. Maybe she has heard...
...animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating his barking skills. The picture's title character, German shepherd Won Ton Ton, arrived by limo, sporting a rhinestone collar and accompanied by his trainer...
...that small firms be better represented in the group and that Italian industry in general establish better relations with workers. "La scossa Agnelli" (the Agnelli shock), Italian newspapers called the proposal. After a number of such scosse, the press came up with a nickname for mild-looking Umberto: "The mastiff with the angel face." At present Umberto is aiming many of his barks in the direction of France's Citroen, with which Fiat has been engaged in a joint venture since 1968. Irked because the French firm has resisted his efforts to integrate the two companies more closely, Agnelli...
...genius and philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from the Reader's Digest. But with the same acceptance of reality he observes the growling of the mastiff bitch as dark spirits pass, repeals the laws of gravity at will and marks the fall of the dead ("And every soul, it passed me by, like the whizz of my cross-bow"). The Sunlight Dialogues has almost as high a mortality rate as The Ancient Mariner...