Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love. It's love toward an object. It can be a love toward those shells," he says, pointing nearby. "It's a love of warmth, of finding something precious. It's like a wonderful animal, a dog that will come up and sit in your lap and you pet its head. This is something we've lost. A lot of people will take my wife's statement wrong, but I think it's very beautiful and real...
...stands 5 ft. tall, on point. His face has the canine cantankerousness of a mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks. He secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video...
...pent-up frustration at her own past abuses at the hands of her pimp. George stands there, crying, and submits to her rage and pain. When Simone stops, realizing how she's hurt him, she bursts into tears and hugs him as if he were a helpless and confused pet...
...upper end of the economic scale, some wonder if charity is in danger of succumbing to chic. New York Financier Felix Rohatyn, who along with his wife Elizabeth has launched a small crusade against events that concentrate more on social glamour than helping worthy causes, is concerned that the pet charities of the New York rich, the favored museums and cultural institutions and hospitals, will sop up money that could be better used to help less fashionable but equally needy causes. "Why should a program for the homeless be allowed to disintegrate," he asks, "if at the same time large...
...remind him that the real paradise is that great American city across the sea, rich with Cadillacs and videos and fast-food joints. By now, even New York, least otherworldly of cities, lists in its phone books 27 Edens, nine Arcadias and almost 100 Paradises (including the Paradise Memorial Pet Crematory and Paradise Guard Dogs...