Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manager is an insensitive swine; for a month's supply of subway tokens he would send a fighter up against a mountain slide. The fighter, swimming up from economic backwaters, is a supreme dolt and an exploited object of surface pity. Then comes the trainer, faithful as a mutt. Behind them all sits the omnipotent syndicate, whose generals eat pheasant under glass and meticulously avoid the sauce stains...
...true that I pestered the dog. Such was my loneliness that after a time I ascribed human characteristics to the mutt. I talked to him constantly ('Let me tell you about the ambiguity of Henry James, Christie'). I taught him to sit up manlike, his spine leaning against the back of the davenport; and with my arm thrown buddy-like over his shoulder, we sat and 'watched' the television together. I even made him a little blue sweatshirt, a replica...
...their bunks, prickling the silence with wisecracks and gibes to pass the time. When a sergeant enters, the guards are suddenly heel-clicking marionettes, wooden parodies of soldiers, drained of emotion as they parrot back orders. The camera lingers on the faces of Evans and O'Rourke, the Mutt and Jeff of the absurd, one fearful, the other flashing madness from bright blue eyes...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard borrows the Mutt and Jeff of the Globe entourage, keeps them in the Shakespearean situation, but endows them with 20th century complexes and complaints. John Wood and Brian Murray revel in the sometimes melancholic, ofttimes witty dialogue...
...dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...