Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern airliner, as all know, cleverly compresses the minor irritations of several days or weeks of travel into a few hours of astonishing misery. There is no need to speak of the automobile, superb for drive-in banking, exasperating for other uses. What else is there? Dog sledding, backpacking? Each has its merits. Hot-air ballooning? Lovely, but lacking direction. Are we forgetting something...
...Lisa, then an art teacher, showed some of his drawings to children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in which a boy and a dog stumble onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends in ambiguity: the reader never knows for sure whether the magician turns Fritz, the signature bull terrier that has appeared in all of Van Allsburg's subsequent books, into...
Brighter links to Clapton's blues-based past are provided on Journeyman in the guise of three fresh covers of old blues tunes--"Hard Times," "Hound Dog" and "Before You Accuse...
...while Clapton's vocals and arrangement may be a little too close to Ray Charles' original version, the guitar licks that Clapton inserts add texture and counterpoint to the song. Overall, "Hard Times" comes across as beautifully relaxed and soulful, and contrasts nicely with a swing version of "Hound Dog," which follows...
...just a guy coming out of Harvard," says R. Victor Jones, Wallace professor of applied physics. "He's been in the legislature for eight years, and one might expect that someone coming out of academia wouldn't survive in the dog-eat-dog world of politics, but he's done very well...