Word: cocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Connor, whose life story beggars fiction, opened in the '60s for Sha Na Na, played guitar with Roy Orbison on several occasions and led a band called Myles and the Wild Ones. He had a pet alligator named Albert and "cried like a kid who'd lost his cocker spaniel" when Albert went off to the big swamp in the sky. He has one brother who is a cop and another who is a priest. ("I don't know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped...
Such was the scenario last Friday at Paradise Rock Club, where the Franco-Anglo melodymakers Stereolab graced the karmic stage playing to a capacity crowd. Whereas Damon Albarn and company may get jeers from Gallagher acolytes between sets, and Jarvis Cocker has lingerie (new and apparently used) thrown at him mid-verse, only the progenitors of what has been called "silver-suited amorphous future-pop" would receive such a foolhardy request to enter their privileged world of audio experimentation...
Politicians sensed TV's special emotional potency very early: in 1952 Richard Nixon saved his vice-presidential campaign against charges of financial wrongdoing by declaring that his wife wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat" and defiantly vowing to let his kids keep "a little cocker spaniel dog" named Checkers. Now political operatives watch the declining ratings for the traditional convention format and conclude, rationally enough, that the public's taste has changed, that it wants to "feel" the data rather than think about them. And, in the spirit of those Hollywood bigwigs they so roundly condemn, they are more than...
...final polish, though: no dog can hope to be a champion without conforming to a very narrow standard of physical perfection set by individual dog clubs and ratified by the AKC. And customer-conscious breeders have obliged by creating prizewinning dogs with specific traits, such as long ears in cocker spaniels or sloping hips in German shepherds...
...animals -- are afflicted with a serious genetic problem. German shepherds, for example, run an even higher risk of hip dysplasia than do golden retrievers. Labrador retrievers are prone to dwarfing. At least 70% of collies suffer from genetic eye trouble, and 10% eventually go blind. Dalmatians are often deaf. Cocker spaniels tend to have bad tempers. Great Danes have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such enormous heads that pups often have to be delivered by cesarean section. Newfoundlands can drop dead from cardiac arrests. Chinese Shar-Peis, the wrinkly dogs that don't seem to fit into their skin, have...