Word: pug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no reason why Vorster [Oct. 4] should be pug-nosing in the affairs of Rhodesia, as if to say he is not facing the same problems as Smith...
...Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds are long, but Poitier's hypnotic skills are considerable. Bootney flattens the champ in the first round. The boys clean...
...Velma, Charlotte Rampling, a sexy, skillful actress, is called upon to do Lauren Bacall imitations from The Big Sleep and looks abashed. There are a couple of sharp secondary performances-by a Philadelphia pug named Jack O'Halloran as Moose and Walter McGinn as a strung-out musician-but the rest of the cast is mostly good faces with no roles to match...
Lynn Silliman, the coxswain, who is only 16 and looks like a 13-year-old blonde-haired, pug-nosed tomboy, had seized the water bottle the crew takes out on the river and was impishly squirting Carie, who looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than the rest of the group, whose average age is 23--when Lynn saw Parker's son George reading a comic book called The Inkumans, she grabbed it and asked with keen interest, "Oh, have you read Swamp Things?"--but no one seems to notice the age gap too much...
...legislators, irritated by Pug's unrelenting attacks on them, were not buying. When a three-judge federal panel in Columbia upheld the lower court, Ravenel's lone hope was a forlorn one-an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ruled in favor of a similar residency requirement in New Hampshire. Last week the hastily reconvened Democratic state convention named Dorn, a conservative who has served 26 years in the House of Representatives, to replace Ravenel. The untidy shuffling of candidates, with the appearance of a quarterback sneak against Ravenel, has given the G.O.P. its first chance...