Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dogs Go to Heaven, Bluth takes a vacation from portent and dips into anecdote. Listen for familiar echoes (Little Miss Marker, Heaven Can Wait, even Disney's 1988 cartoon Oliver & Company) in the story of Charlie, a German shepherd who is reprieved from death and befriends a little girl kidnaped by his scurvy old gang. Visually, the picture is swathed in Bluth's trademark golden browns and moody blues. Aurally, it's a reunion of the Burt Pack: Burt Reynolds is the voice of Charlie, Loni Anderson is the moll Flo, the exuberantly flustered Dom DeLuise is Charlie...
...pretty. Their just released Merry, Merry Christmas is a Yuletide celebration that sounds snappy while simultaneously evoking the innocent pleasures of mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where the New Kids reign...
...long stretch of grass between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument is teeming with demonstrators who have come from universities across the country to demand that the politicians listen...
...Sanders said an increase in voters would expand the democratic process. "Even if the Socialist Party only got 10 percent of the vote, the people in power in Washington would have to listen," he said...
Unfortunately, all Doctor Stuart Framingham (Anthony Korotko Hatch) wants to do is sleep with Prudence, and Mrs. Charlotte Wallace (Magda Hernandez), Bruce's analyst, is too busy searching for cookies to listen to his problems. Bruce runs to Prudence, Prudence runs from Bob, Charlotte runs after both of them, and everyone runs from Dr. Framingham. It's all in vain, however; the characters are doomed to meet up in the same "existential restaurant" in which Bruce and Prudence had their first encounter...