Word: pooches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press. To poodle a little more excitement into the story, the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service sought reactions from, among others, Finance Minister Albert Gudmundsson. Readily admitting that he owned a fetching 13-year-old mongrel named Lucy, Gudmundsson unleashed a counterattack against the capital's law. If pooch came to shove, he barked, he would neither part with Lucy nor pay a fine that he considered silly and a violation of human rights. Protesting that a top official should not be above the law, a reporter filed a complaint against the Minister...
...soap opera, but it is not, for Director Thomas has a way of letting his melodramatic moments flow smoothly into the stream of life. Sexual misadventures are part of that flow, but so is the family dog's being discovered by the movies (Thomas casts him as the pooch romping on the beach at the end of A Man and a Woman), an uncle whose credentials for believing he is an expert on women consist mostly of the fact that his wife deserted him, a grandfather who has the wisdom to tell one of the girls it is impossible...
...case that provides the opportunity for opposites to attract is the dognaping of a champion schnauzer by a trainer (Harry Dean Stanton) with a bad gambling debt to pay off. The victim, besides the hound, is a poor little rich girl (Barbara Babcock), who regards the pooch as the only good thing in her life. The crime is just ludicrous enough to penetrate Valnikov's self-absorption. Besides, he is a pet lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably...