In her dogged search for authenticity amid the fakery that surrounds her, Enid befriends a middle-aged record collector named Seymour Steve Buscemii).
To meet his fans, from Moscow to Hong Kong, he travels incessantly, Shanghai, New Mexico, Cuba... not with the zest of his salad days, but in a slightly dogged search for audiences.
Much later, in The Fugitive, for which he won an Oscar in 1994, he was the US marshal who refused to abandon a dogged search for the convicted killer played by Harrison Ford.
Still, Mr. Lévesque's dogged search follows a path taken by more than a dozen other diggers over the last 150 years in an enduring quest that has become a stitch of folklore in the cultural fabric of Quebec City.
The one serendipitous upshot of his dogged search was that the man whose name was on the purse turned out to be the grandfather of the late playwright Herb Gardner, whose works, including "A Thousand Clowns," often revolved around the kind of eccentric New Yorkers that Mr. Feldman would appreciate.
"They humiliate us by saying we have to prove we qualify for assistance, when they know we qualify because we lost our jobs," said Mr. Lopez, detailing his dogged search from his home in Irvington, N.J., for a job at any hotel in the city.
But not everyone appreciates Mr. Dawson's dogged search for flaws, especially sellers who cringe as he shines his flashlight into every nook and cranny of their houses looking for structural framing problems, leaking fuel tanks, rusted fixtures, cracked foundations, missing roof shingles and loosened mortar between the bricks in chimneys.
Generations later, a decorated veteran and diplomat undertook a dogged search for his remains.
The normally rich cast of characters was pared to a minimum Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and the Sherpa Tharkey as the story focused on Tintin's dogged search for Chang.
