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Running Dog Information
217 words, approx. 1 pages
 Running Dog is a novel by Don DeLillo published in 1978. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a...




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 The Village Voice
Dog Runs
12/31/2003: 737 words, approx. 3 pages unleash the hounds Country Dog comes to visit City Dog at his railroad apartment in the East Village. "I don't envy you,"says Country, a leggy golden retriever with a shaggy coat and drooly mouth. "You spend your days in a cracker box. When...
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Dogs On The Run
02/03/1996: 486 words, approx. 2 pages ALICE ROCHE CODY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-03-1996 DOGS ON THE RUN -- WILY CANINES' ESCAPE COMES TO QUICK END By ALICE ROCHE CODY, Staff Writer Date: 02-03-1996, Saturday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star...
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 The New York Observer
I.M., I Said! The Medium Is The Instant Message
10/15/2006: 779 words, approx. 3 pages As anyone under the age of 52 can attest, the era of e-mail is over. It’s been supplanted by instant-messaging: a quicker, shorter and far more effective means of conducting interpersonal communications in our fast-paced 24/7 society. Of course, with this has come an entirely...




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Critical Essay by Anthony Burgess
490 words, approx. 2 pages
 As a European, I sometimes wonder whether the kind of fiction that Don DeLillo and other Americans are writing can be termed novels in the sense still current in Europe. Here it is legitimate to fictionalize the breakdown of civilization, but only from the viewpoint of a protagonist who holds to the values out of which the novel-form was begotten. We need humanity to observe the death of humanity. But in Running Dog, and in much contemporary American fiction, we have no humanity at all—bodies, nerves...
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Critical Essay by Richard Kuczkowski
252 words, approx. 1 pages
 [With] precision and order, Running Dog reveals pattern and network linking seemingly unrelated individuals and their rituals of distance, devotion, quest, connection, and separation enacted around a "pornographic" film. That film and the inability or unwillingness of the individuals involved to comprehend or transcend the true nature and full extent of their actions and relationships lend moral perspective to DeLillo's novel…. Running Dog belongs to a special category of art, on...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
127 words, approx. 1 pages
 [A lesson] in how to compile a political thriller—smartly enigmatic, niftily cross-cut, bouncy with erotics, sudden deaths, and smartipants talk—is Running Dog, which wears its seriousness with fetching lightness. Cinematically, indeed fast-movingly done, it celebrates our cineastic age where only what moves is alluring: and where what allures its pawn-dealers, villains, journalists, and secret service operators most is a rumoured sex-orgy movie shot in Hitlers's bunker. Inevitably disa...


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