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...that cannot be. They must not, allow reality to intrude on their dreams. Guest's characters are often exotics - dog fanciers, show folks - but despite their outr? occupations and preoccupations they are, at heart, just the rest of us, pursuing, say, a promotion or a new job or a teasing, out-of-reach lover; pretending not to care, pretending not to heed the gnawing in their vitals, but haplessly imprisoned by their hopeless dreams...
...just one of the more skin-crawling scenes in The Little Dog Laughed, a play by Douglas Carter Beane that wouldn't be worth talking about if it hadn't received mostly rave reviews when it opened off-Broadway last winter, hyping it enough to effect a Broadway transfer this fall. New York theater critics are so starved for something besides musicals to talk about on Broadway that they tend to overrate trifles like this. But The Little Dog Laughed is worse than a trifle; it's an embarrassment...
...Heartbreak Heidi” (Heidi E. Kim ’09), “The Ching Chow Constrictor,” “B-Ravenous,” and “The Earth Smother,” the contest was ironically reminiscent of a hot dog or buffalo wing-eating contest. Said contestant “Miss Mary Smack” of Allston: “I am an eating machine.” Cheering her on was her roller derby team, garbed in matching red and white mesh tank tops. “Smack” refused...
...just don't understand what the authorities are doing," says Beijing accountant Xiaomei, her lower lip trembling. "My dog would never harm anybody. The rule that we Beijingers can't have a dog bigger than 35 centimeters [13.8 inches] is completely arbitrary...
...proud owner of a two-year-old Husky, Max (whose name has also been changed for his protection). For the moment, Max is safely secreted with a friend in the countryside, beyond the jurisdiction of the Beijing municipality's strict rules limiting each city household to a single dog, and limiting its size. While the regulations have existed in various forms for years, enforcement has been lax until recently. Many owners of oversize dogs had previously simply walked their German shepherds and golden retrievers under cover darkness. But a recent crackdown by Beijing police - ostensibly aimed at curbing rabies...