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...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...long nomination process can be good--it gives voters time to mull over the candidates thoroughly and decide what doesn't matter (say, adultery and draft evasion) and what does (say, having a plan...
...egotistical star (Tom Arnold) of a network sitcom. But it is surprisingly conventional and toothless. Staffers quake at the mere thought of a meeting with Jackie, but he turns out to be an easily manipulated dunce. The inside-TV humor is too familiar, as are the supporting players (Martin Mull, Alison LaPlaca). Even Arnold's performance has the whiff of a recycled Dave Thomas character from SCTV. Still, the show has a fiendish glint in its eye, and with its surefire time slot (following Roseanne on Tuesdays), it may be around long enough to forge a fresh path...
Even so, as the images of atrocity flicker across the world's television screens, the U.S. and its allies find themselves forced to mull over the unattractive military options available that might put a crimp in Serbian aggression -- or at least send a message of retribution to Belgrade. In the long run, the international community must develop a new ethic, and new institutions to match, concerned less with the sanctity of borders than with the rights of people. Until it does, the dilemma posed in Bosnia is likely to be repeated elsewhere, again and again...
...deadline approaches, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and President Neil L. Rudenstine have asked the Faculty to mull over the decision. We think they should stick to their guns...