Word: chihuahuas
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...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...
Saint Laurent model on the runway. At his left is a stack of white sketching cards; behind him sits Hazel, his beige Chihuahua. Drawing on a Kool, Saint Laurent plucks a dagger-sharp 2-B pencil from a pot at his right and swiftly, unerringly limns a costume. Or, between vision and commitment, he will fiddle with a handful of worry trinkets, the Captain Queeg of couture...
...this aloofness between us was Precious, a bastardized mouse of a chihuahua. Precious was the yin and yang of the Connally marriage--on any given night the pitch and frequency of the despicable creature's yaps would reveal the flow of the marital battle--the advances and retreats of the two sides, the victories, the losses...
...guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...
...constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts and eat corn...