Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnesota, opponents tried to bat ERA away by handing out red fly swatters to legislators. In Oklahoma, Democrat John Monks helped defeat the bill by preaching from the Bible. "The good book says a woman should serve her husband," he told his colleagues. Arkansas State Senator Guy Hamilton ("Mutt") Jones put the matter a little differently: "Women are put on this earth to minister to the needs of miserable men," he argued. Marion Olson, chairwoman of a right-wing political party in Minnesota, offered yet another objection: "We don't want to turn our daughters into tigers...
...more mundane level, the paper adopted a scraggly mutt from a Miami dog pound last month and invited readers to name him. Pope promises to take the dog to Manhattan's prestigious Westminster show to meet his betters, and then to Hollywood for a session with Lassie. The Enquirer will note every hydrant stop along...
...hottest play (Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue) and television's highest-rated new series (the triweekly Columbo portion of NBC Mystery Theater). But Peter Falk is nobody's idea of a leading man, not even his own. "I'm a mutt," he says, "not a thoroughbred." A very New York mutt at that: uncurried, uncurbable, and bristling with street moxie and manners. His appeal as an actor is neatly summed up in his own description of the police detective he plays in Columbo: "He looks like a flood victim. You feel sorry...
...that," he says. "It's better when an actor responds like a child -fast. For the short haul, I find a maniac more interesting than someone in control." Still, he is the first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says in one of his lines in Prisoner: "Miracles don't happen when you're 47. When Moses saw the burning bush, he must have been...
...appetite is so fierce that, given a choice between ten thousand dollars and a cookie, he opts immediately for the latter. There are other creatures on the show, like Bert and Erniehumanoids with cartoon hands, three fingers and a thumb. Bert, who has one frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There he fulminates, venting such mock aggressions that by comparison a child in a tantrum is Little Mary Sunshine...