Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sent home and banned from coming back for the rest of the summer. She blew up, shouting that she was "tired of niggers telling her what to do," and that she didn't have to listen to a mix-blooded person like me because, "you look like a mutt anyway...
...first assistant director had recently acquired a puppy, an adorable mutt, that came to set every day. A Polaroid was delivered to her, of Mickey (the dog) and scrawled on the photo were the disturbing words, "Mochas or the mutt dies!" Taking it as a prank, she ignored the missive. Soon a second Polaroid arrived; this time a gun pointed at poor Mickey's head, the message implicit. Despite the assistant director's rising panic, the producer refused to take action. She sternly responded, "Kill the mutt!" A third picture arrived: Mickey splayed on the ground, eyes closed...
When it comes to replacing Millie, any old mutt just won't do. So on their way back from Poland last week, Barbara and George Bush picked up a new liver-and-white springer spaniel, trained by Queen Elizabeth's very own dog trainer in London. As it comes from the land of Shakespeare, maybe the pooch will have even more literary ability than its best-selling pawbear...
...vampire novels is a Blue Dog painting by the canny Cajun artist George Rodrigue, whose striking work can be found not only at his New Orleans gallery but also in Carmel, California, and abroad. Posed with barnyard animals or buxom nudes, Blue Dog is a captivating and mysterious mutt who stares out at readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist's departed four- legged companion Tiffany, now channeled back to inhabit her beloved master's work. Old timey with a New Age angle...
Most of these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there...