Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase--is that a resentment in your pocket or are you just glad to see me. One gets the feeling that Wolfe is a careful craftsman, that he works hard at writing. A collection of random pieces of journalism often shows how hard it is to keep the same pet phrases that you used ten months ago for an Esquire piece out of the new one you're writing for New York Magazine. Wolfe is a fine writer; it's his ideas that are terrible...
...certain sensitivity lurks beneath his dull manner, however. He goes all gooey, for instance, over his pet turtles, Cuff and Link. And the lady who works in the pet shop (Talia Shire) exerts a claim on his shy heart, though of course he has trouble articulating his feelings. There is really no place for poor Rocky to go but up-if only because an entire film devoted to so dreary a fellow would be intolerable. Almost immediately it is clear that this is another trip up the trail immortally, definitively explored by Brando in On the Waterfront over two decades...
...everyone knows about the McGuffin-Alfred Hitchcock's pet name for the object (microfilm or rare jewels) that kicks off the action in a suspense film. Less renowned, but just as important, is "the clock." This is movie shorthand for the deadline toward which villains push their mean plans and against which the virtuous struggle mightily. Two-Minute Warning, which concerns a sniper (Warren Miller) in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, has more clocks than a Swiss trade show...
...have two choices for President: a Pet Rock or a Cheshire...
...playing happily with her child looks as if she had all the time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time each year...