Word: mastiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Television has long been the tail that wags the Olympic mastiff. But the 1988 Summer Games may mark the first time it has wagged an entire national time system. Three years ago, while preparing to sell TV rights to the Games, South Korean Olympic officials realized that the rights would be worth more if the country's clocks were moved forward one hour -- thus enabling more daytime events to be seen in prime time in the U.S. Result: last year, for the first time since the 1960s, South Korea instituted daylight saving time...
Hospitals are finding that animals ease patient isolation, as well as anxiety and distress. Three of the most popular visitors to elderly patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York City come from the A.S.P.C.A.: Jake, a bull mastiff; Boris, a 50-lb. Samoyed; and Regina, a tortoiseshell cat. At Children's Hospital in Denver, staff members and volunteers bring in their dogs, cleanly clad in smocks or T shirts, and make rounds of wards. Retirement and nursing homes are welcoming pets too. The Tacoma Lutheran Home in Washington boasts a menagerie of furry and feathery live-ins. Some have...
...however, comes a contretemps of mastiff proportions. It started when one dog owner refused to pay her fine. She was jailed for two days and released after the case attracted howling attention from the press. To poodle a little more excitement into the story, the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service sought reactions from, among others, Finance Minister Albert Gudmundsson. Readily admitting that he owned a fetching 13-year-old mongrel named Lucy, Gudmundsson unleashed a counterattack against the capital's law. If pooch came to shove, he barked, he would neither part with Lucy nor pay a fine that...