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...story Seoul apartment complex where a frustrated academic, played by Lee Sung Jae, dreams of becoming a professor by bribing the dean with money he doesn't have. His pregnant wife's quotidian demands are exhausting him. And then there are the dogs?the building is a veritable kennel. Lee loses his head when a white poodle one floor down won't stop yapping. He swipes the pooch, climbs to the roof, wraps his hands round the bitch's neck then dangles it over the side. It's Man and Beast pushed to the edge. Lee relents and locks...
...squashed muzzles, hairless bodies and highly folded skin - all traits that can diminish the quality of an animal's life, cause serious discomfort and in extreme cases even prove fatal. More pernicious still has been the overindulgence in irresponsible inbreeding, which has spread inherited disorders among pedigree dogs. The Kennel Club, the top canine body in Britain, working with breed-specific dog clubs has laid out the "right" looks - a narrow set of desirable characteristics that breeders try to match. "Judges judge against a standard, and it's rewarding and challenging for breeders to try to meet those standards...
...GERMAN SHEPHERDS: Hip dysplasia, which can bring on crippling arthritis, causes problems for this breed IRISH SETTERS: They should be screened for hip dysplasia and also for progressive retinal atrophy, an incurable inherited eye disease that gradually leads to blindness says Geoff Sampson, a geneticist who works for the Kennel Club. But that kind of judging has too often been unrewarding for the dog. In the quest to create the perfect pooch, close relatives will often be mated, sometimes even brother and sister or mother and son. The danger of this practice is that it increases the likelihood that puppies...
Fall 2001 Fashion Week, The American International Toy Fair and the 125th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show descended on New York City last week. Though their participants probably never crossed paths, Notebook observes that playthings, pleats and pooches do have a lot in common...
...villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...