Word: spaniel
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...usual the substance of the book is Frederick Buechner's amiable conviction that the hound of heaven is a wet spaniel, apt to shake himself at any moment and shower a man with faith and grace. What is also unsettling, in this successful sequel to Buechner's Lion Country, is the considerable attention but negligible weight that this gifted and amusing writer gives to earthly matters...
Curiously, one Ulster M.P. who said not a word was firebrand Catholic Bernadette Devlin. In the Commons, reported TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, "she slumped like the dormouse in Alice on the Labor benches, and merely watched the proceedings through her spaniel hair...
Otherwise, Sonny & Cher is uninspired. Its stars are Sonny, a rock-'n'-roll graduate with the manner of an eager spaniel, and his wife, Cher, a gangling lady who sashays through comic skits with a kind of kooky chic. As a singing team, the couple trails a history of hit records of the mid-'60s, but as variety stars, neither has the comic gift to unthaw their frigid material. The saving feature of the show is Cher's singing. Give her a song and she electrifies a dim-watted production. Her rock-pop voice sounds like...
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...seems that reality breaks Eudora Welty's heart, and that most of the activity in her writing is diversion from heavier judgements. The photo Saturday Off is of a beautiful young black woman leaning up against the base of a column crossing her arms before her like a springer spaniel, looking rich and sexy as any Scarlett O'Hara. "A piece of body torn off at the roots might be more to the point," is what James Agee and Walker Evans in their Let Us Now Praise Famous Men had to say about the rural south in the thirties...