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...First Lady fell in love with the Buckleys' dog last fall, and when the Reagans came to New York City last week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Buckley's National Review, the President had arranged to pick up Rex as a surprise Christmas present. The housebroken pooch, says a White House spokesman, "has been promised total access to the Oval Office," something for which many aides would gladly lead a dog's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 16, 1985 | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...Further dolls include pound puppies, teach and play kids, wide-eyed or sleepy real babies, kari-me babies, koosas, etc. Robots, too, now serve as companions, as shown by Omnibot, Omni 2000 (a steal at $399.97), Pester Puppy and Cat (why does the feline cost $20 more than the pooch?) and Alphie II. How are today's kids ever going to learn to deal with other tots who want different things for lunch and who who bleed if you bang them off furniture? Nothing is sadder than the five-year-old who has no friends because of his permanent attachment...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Kids' Stuff | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...literally the answer to a maiden's prayer. With Carter Crick laid waste by evil strip miners, young Megan (Sydney Penny) kneels over her martyred pooch and begs God for "a miracle" to save her mother (Carrie Snodgress), her mom's suitor (Michael Moriarty) and what is left of the settlement. Dissolve to Clint on horseback. He saves the good folks, kills the bad folks, dodges a mother-daughter rivalry for his affections and ends up in a showdown ^ with a gunslinger (John Russell) who is even gaunter than Clint. You could hibernate in Russell's cheek hollows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Sideshows of Summer | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...food company was running a "Search for the Great American Dog," he figured that had to be Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart: "He's one in a million." The winner gets $25,000. Will it be Nemo, prompting all the noncelebrity contestants to cry foul? Finalists will be announced in October, and then the public gets to vote. Making the All-Star team could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 9, 1984 | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...Pickup Pooch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 1984 | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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