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Word: mutt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hired consultants to test her appeal further. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against Metromedia was an audio tape of a research discussion in which Steve Meacham, a Media Associates employee, said to a group of local viewers, "Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft. Is she a mutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Requiem for TV's Gender Gap? | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...review describes Max's good-guy dog as a gray-eyed mutt that is fearless and faithful. As the owner of an Australian cattle dog, I know that these animals are indeed fearless and faithful, but definitely not mutts. They are the latest breed to be recognized by the American Kennel Club and were bred to herd and drive the cattle that range over thousands of square miles of the Australian bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1982 | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...good guy is a dog, Max's gray-eyed mutt companion, fearless and faithful. Another one literally erupts out of the earth. This is Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence), a deranged parody of the World War I aerial ace: scarecrow skinny, gaily clad, sporting a James Coburn smile with advanced caries. This would-be gallant is given to abrupt whinnies and wistful meditations on the good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apocalypse... Pow! | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...flophouse face and shaggy-dog body, wearing clothes like rumpled bed sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme, is to appreciate the musical symbiosis of a splendid comedy team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The O.D. Couple | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...never met a cat I didn't hate. It's not just that I dislike the moon-wailing, shrub-fouling, people-using critters. What gets me is they don't have to be licensed, while my house-confined mutt does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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