Word: mongrelization
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When a German-born restaurateur named Charles Feltman first popularized the frankfurter on a roll 100 years ago, the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce refused to endorse the sobriquet "hot dog." They thought it might evoke notions of processed mongrel. Today the public has less fanciful worries. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, since 1937 the frankfurter has gone from 19% fat and 19.6% protein to 28% fat and only 11.7% protein. (The rest is water, salt, spices and preservatives.) This deterioration is yet another of technology's ambiguous gifts...
...bachelorhood to the world at large. In the time-honored tradition of bachelors who gloat early in a show, Wilson will soon be posting the banns-somewhere in the second reel, in fact. His intended is one Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), who supports three children and a yapping mongrel on alimony checks. Once wed, Wilson is beset by miseries. His stepchildren are a mess. The boy is prey to countless nighttime fears, the younger of the two daughters stammers, and the older displays unmistakable signs of nymphomania. Terry's ex-husband (Jason Robards) visits disruptively. The dog snarls...
...always welcome here if she wants to come, of course." "Here" is a farmhouse on twelve acres in Wales, where Michael, having abandoned the $78,000 mansion that his mother gave him, now lives in a commune with Wife Beth, Baby Leyla, six friends, an old goat and a mongrel dog named Wally...
Meanwhile she lives in her new house in Malibu with her daughter, a young driver-helper, a maid, a fox terrier, a large mongrel and a deaf cat. She eats health foods ("Our whole society is built around the dining table," she complains over alfalfa sprouts and carrot juice) and spends a lot of time watching the tide-and her psyche. Starting with her breakthrough in B. & C. & T. & A., she recalls, "people kept saying, 'Wow! You're a star. You must really be happy,' and I kept asking myself, 'If it's so great...
Tonight she fed them many cans of dog food, all mixed with garlic to grow their for lush. Alfred would not eat from his own bowl no matter how hungry he was and Girl stood aside while the little mongrel ate from hers. He was citybred like his dad and Sam, who had been born poor in South Philadelphia or someplace with no background of his own, had given his dog the classiest of names: ALFRED WARBURG FRICK BOLLO III, a heavy weight for such a little rattle-rear to carry around...