Word: terrierism
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...Paper Terrier. When the taping is over, Johnny has a Coke or Michelob, slips into a turtleneck jersey and a cardigan, then, to avoid the ambush of autograph hounds, takes a side elevator down and makes a fast getaway in his waiting limousine. From then on, he writes his own script-one he likes to keep a closed book. Sometimes it is an open ledger. The Chicago Tribune paid him $25,000 for a 14-part syndicated interview series just completed last week. A top editor of the Trib concedes that its penetration was "pretty thin...
...show, he stays there. He and his second wife, Joanne, 35, a petite ex-model and decorator, get out to dinner only about twice a month, to about half a dozen plays a season and regularly only to pro football games. Joanne "almost never" entertains. Muffin, their Yorkshire terrier, is paper-trained, so they don't have to walk her. "We enjoy spending our time here," says Johnny. "We have a comfortable home, and we like each other's company. I'm not going to sit around in a roomful of people pretending to have a good...
Eight minutes later. Harvard suffered its second penalty. Penalty-killers Dennis McCullough and Chip Otness, who weren't used on the first infraction, totally disarmed the Terrier play...
...penalty ended. McCullough cleared out to defenseman Don Grimble. Grimble centered the puck from the left point to the streaking Otness, who fired it through Terrier goalie Wayne Ryan...
...reality, MacBird is a mangy little terrier of a satire, nipping at the trouser cuffs of the mighty. Its bark is its bite. Holier than thou in its complacency and self-indulgently assured of how In-funny it is, MacBird is an off-campus transplant of college humor...