Word: pooches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enterprise has been what economists call, approvingly, consumer activity: building a mansion that Duane hates, filling it with trendy furniture and appliances, and one day, more than usually bored, buying the damn doghouse, a two-story log affair built to resemble a Western fort. Naturally Duane's red- eyed pooch Shorty won't go near this oddity. McMurtry neatly establishes both that Shorty has a firmer grip on things than his master and that Duane, though distracted, is not a bad egg; there is no dog in the doghouse he is cannonading. Still, Shorty does have problems: Can his master...
...Catullus wrote poems to commemorate the deaths of their mistresses' birds, and trendy Romans kept pet turbot. Today a dog's vita can be just as dolce. Three years ago, Lady Beaverbrook booked all the seats in the business section of a jumbo jet so that she and her pooch could travel in solitary comfort...
...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...
...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...
...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...