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...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...
...because he was a sensualist in describing people who thought it their sad destiny to be prim, Cheever was able to create a kind of lyric poetry about the things he loved: the forced intimacy of Manhattan foot traffic, a beach house at midnight, the fidelity in a cocker spaniel's tilted glance, the tenseness in a young wife's posture, the sweet-and-sour scents of rosemary and rue, the pulse of lust beneath a Republican vest...
...hour's drive away. The crowd was overwhelmingly white and middle-class. The bands, 50 of them, were more diverse and included everyone from sexy female rappers Salt N Pepa and trippy alternative rockers Blind Melon to punk-funksters Red Hot Chili Peppers and even soul crooner Joe Cocker, who reprised his Woodstock '69 classic With a Little Help from My Friends...
Woodstock '94 kicked off today with tens of thousands flocking to the three-day event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into...
...thickened. At Eisenhower's urging, Nixon went before a TV audience estimated at 58 million with an impassioned defense of his honesty. "Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime we've got is honestly ours," he said. The only personal present he had received was "a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate. Black-and-white spotted. And our little girl -- Tricia, the six-year-old -- named it Checkers. And you know, the kids love that dog." Hundreds of thousands of listeners cabled or wrote their support of Nixon, and Eisenhower settled his future by saying publicly...