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...chief of medicine at Texas A & M's veterinary school: "I'll have people say, 'See, he soiled the couch to spite me! He knows he's guilty!' Or they'll try to reason intellectually with the dog. Often it's a medical problem. [Or] the dog may have peed in the house for as simple a reason as it was too cold to go when he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fido Gets Phobic | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...stories, however, there is one that is set quite apart from the rest, written without the subtle humor or the odd dialogue; it's clearly torn from real life. In the cumbersomely title "People Like That are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk," a couple undergo the horrific experience of discovering and dealing with cancer in their infant son. Subversively poignant in its subtle bitterness and desperate hope, the story draws the reader into a nightmare world of clean rooms. IV's N-G tubes and veteran parents of sick children, parents weary and glass-eyed...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All Heroine, No High | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that she had crushes on Mr. Rogers and Erik Estrada in her youth. For many, this will be more information than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1997 | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...often fixes on other people, he serves up deadly, sweeping categorizations. According to Sedaris, the people who most want to be in acting are always "Jews, homosexuals, and portly girls, whose faces were caked with acne medication." Of people who live in trailers, he remarks that, in general, they "peed in the sink and used metal buckets to barbeque tough purple steaks marked 'reduced for final sale.'" His sense of humor is alert and p.c.-heedless...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...peed on a Harvard monument lately? "No, but I did pee on the Meditation School last night...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: FM Profiles | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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