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...dumb. Give him your heart, and he'll give you his." There it is: both dogs and dog movies afford us a chance to be incredibly sappy without feeling like a sucker. As the bajillion hits on Puppy Cam and the speculation over the particulars of the Obamas' hound of choice attest, dogs are the closest thing we have to a de-ironization device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema's Best Friend | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...next few months. In taking on the task of prosecuting the largest swindle in history, he has accepted a role that brings with it enormous public scrutiny, which could be uncomfortable for a guy that is said to be low key. "He is the opposite of a press hound," says Glenn Colton, a partner at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, who has worked with Litt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Will Prosecute the Bernard Madoff Case | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Before television, few would have noticed Nixon's perspiration problem, or his basset-hound jowls, whose stubble shadow always read five o'clock. He had a pitchman's handsome baritone voice, and relied on it to counterfeit intimacy, but his oily modulations couldn't erase the public's suspicion of phoniness; a salesman can't close the deal if his prospective customers know what they're hearing is just a pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...protectants (allantoin and dimethicone) will thwart rubbage for eight hours, and won't stain your socks or stockings. It has a light and fresh scent, almost like suntan lotion, and is perfect for breaking in new shoes - boots, flip-flops and everything in between. If you're a heel hound, Party Shoe Elixir pumps up the protection. Price: $20 for either Elixir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Treatments for Road-Weary Peds | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...been like reporting on a politician packaged in shrink-wrap. While his windy, off-point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane - less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hidin' Biden: Reining In a Voluble No. 2 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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