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Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...vacation without the ceremony, it would have got The Dating Game's ratings because it would have been The Dating Game. But add a ring, some vows and a dress that looks like a doily, and newsmagazines from competing networks will cover your TV special. Getting married to a stranger is a daredevil stunt far more fascinating than jumping a train on a motorcycle, which Robbie Knievel did on Fox later that week to much lower ratings. That's partly because stupid Robbie didn't include a bikini contest...
...learn about memory from a chapter of Spence's Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci than from the whole of this failed comedy. What this ultimately shows is that an effective psychological novel, unlike this one, is meaningful on a deeper level than these plot contrivances will allow. Truth is stranger, and more interesting to read about, than this fiction...
...around, don't be a stranger," he told audience members...
...abreast. He gave me the finger - not once but repeatedly, stabbing the air in a pantomime of nasty proctological hydraulics. With his other hand, he flicked the steering wheel to the left in a spasm of menace, as if he meant to run me off the road. A complete stranger wanted me dead - or anyway, he played at it for a moment. At 75 mph, I had blocked the left lane. I had made him late for an IPO, I suppose...