Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wide eyes cast light on the otherwise dour proceedings, while providing a kind of insider's guide to the marriage. At the same time, though, even Kurshan acquires a police-witness-feel in her casual chat with a gumshoe Hyman. Young Lee '99, as Phillip's boss whose pet project is adding a spiffy annex to the New York Harvard Club, reaches similar comic heights with dead-on self-importance but, too, flounders when trying to tap into the play's underlying texture...
...untitled video project from the 1995 Venice Biennale, an extraordinary and epic look at the ordinary and ephemeral. The piece includes nearly 10 monitors showing over 80 hours of footage from Swiss life. Workers fix sewage lines or stir huge vats of cheese; cats are carefully judged at a pet show; a dentist drills a cavity; and a pulsing crowd moves to awful music and out-of-synch lights at a disco...
...coat? Indeed, and why not? If being treated for a medical ailment by out-of-the-mainstream means is good enough for a human being, why shouldn't it be good enough for a golden retriever--or for any of our animal companions? Alternative medicine for pets may not be as widespread or well publicized as the human variety, but it's growing faster than a sprig of St. John's wort. The options for pet owners range from the surprising to the sublime, depending on how far you're willing to stretch your faith--which is, after...
Like cancer patients who fly to Mexico for the latest miracle cure, many pet owners take the alternative route because they have nowhere else to turn. "By the time they come to me, the choices are pretty much either try alternative medicine or put the animal to sleep," says Susan Wynn, a veterinarian in Atlanta. Wynn, like all other licensed vets, was thoroughly grounded in Western medicine before she turned to unconventional treatments. Some owners seek alternative pet care because they use it for themselves. Other humans have even started taking their pets' medicine. Glucosamine and chondroiton sulfate, two compounds...
Although most artful applications are relatively harmless, there are risks. Some antimedicine pet owners talk about refusing to have their pets vaccinated--which in many states would be a violation of the law. The danger is that by relying on homeopathic remedies instead of vaccines to protect against, say, rabies or feline leukemia, these true believers could contribute to a larger outbreak that all the healing auras in the alternative universe could not combat...