Word: mongrelism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deceased. The owner, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect his privacy, wants a twin to carry on Missy's fine qualities after she does die. The prototype is, by all accounts, athletic, good-natured and supersmart. She's not a show dog, as one might expect, but a mongrel--collie and husky--rescued from a pound. Missy's master does not expect an exact copy of her. He knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy's owners and the A&M team say they are "both looking forward to studying the ways...
Their unavoidable hit is a mix of calypso-inflected insults ("Get back, you flea-infested mongrel!") to a hip-hop-cum-pop beat. But it's the hook that has become an ironic anthem. The singer shouts, "Who let the dogs out?" The reply is a male chorus of "Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof...
...Their unavoidable hit is a mix of calypso-inflected insults ("Get back, you flea-infested mongrel!") to a hip-hop-cum-pop beat. But it's the hook that has become an ironic anthem. The singer shouts, "Who let the dogs out?" The reply is a male chorus of "Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof...
...anybody can work that much needed miracle, it is Webre, 37, a gangly, verbose charmer who talks in enumerated points, flinging his arms around, marionette-style, for emphasis. "I'm a multicultural mongrel," he says, alluding to the fact that he is the son of a Cuban mother and a French-American father. Webre took his first dance lesson as an undergraduate at the University of Texas. At 29, he became head of the New Jersey-based American Repertory Ballet, turning an obscure regional troupe into a forward-looking ensemble with a reputation for unpredictability. The lackluster Washington Ballet...
...superiority to the transiency of life. How frustrating, then, that as he grows older, the poet cannot again find the white wolfhound where he was sure he saw it in Veronese (or maybe Giambattista Tiepolo). How puzzling that his imagination keeps calling up a picture of a black mongrel scavenging along the wharf of a Caribbean harbor town...