Forget champagne, watches and cars: in the next James Bond film, the villain might be found in a Brazilian Atlantic forest hideaway, stroking a long-eared jerboa in a diamond collar.
The unsecret ingredient of its rampant success was turning a dog-eared, dog-eat-dog premise into a coming-of-age story about a strong, resourceful girl, then widening it into a fable of star-crossed lovers.
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The result is a dog-eared record that any hard-rock fan with curious ears might love.
For now, though, the Hound is embracing the past, a time when everyone seemed to have a dog-eared novel to hand.
But this is also a remarkably sharp-eared guide to the vocabulary of living English.
In photographs of his grade-school classes, he always looked out of place, his grinning, elephant-eared face floating like a parade balloon above the other kids in line.
While demolishing a 100-year-old brick farmhouse in Suffolk, England, a maternity roost for brown long-eared bats was found in the attic.
OK, maybe I misread the cover of the dog-eared copy of Glamour perched in a magazine rack at the gym.
In an industry filled with tin-eared salespeople and guys in labcoats, Bertarelli was a dashing figure, complete with a beautiful blonde British wife, Kristy, and an obsession with sailboat racing.
But since I suspect that most parents were like mine--I understood that I would be getting my hands on only a slender fraction of the loot displayed on those dog-eared pages--the larger value, I now realize, was in the fantasy itself.
These books in particular inspired a generation of schoolchildren to take up astronomy and it was a regular occurrence for Sir Patrick to be presented with dog-eared copies of long forgotten titles by eminent professors looking for his signature.
The missionary leaflets by the collection box were smeared and dog-eared, and Bartholomew noticed now that there was bird lime on curtains that were there in place of a door to the vestry.
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