Word: pooch
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...fiercely competitive pet-food industry, inventing a hit product takes a lot of trial and error--not to mention plenty of pooch and feline focus groups. One thing the Iams scientists know is that dogs and cats rarely order from the same menu. Cats like foods acidic and prefer a sort of glassy texture. Dogs won't go near such froufrou fare, preferring things sweet or salty and enjoying both rough and creamy textures...
...Despite finding its way onto Granta's list, Timoleon Vieta Come Home has neither the contemporary crackle of Smith and Litt, nor the intellectual and verbal grandeur of Amis and McEwan. Instead, Rhodes writes straight from - and about - the heart. Timoleon Vieta is the name of a beloved, scruffy pooch who belongs to Carthusians Cockcroft, an aging, gay, composer who has retired, sad and alone, to the Umbrian countryside, where he boozes and listlessly cruises for some thrill to replace the boy in silver shorts who broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only...
Little did he know that the change would involve his dog, a pocketbook-size Papillon named Genevieve. Just for fun, Fried had written a handful of comic essays about his pooch, which his wife Katrina distributed to several online dog groups. After getting enthusiastic e-mail responses to the stories, Fried decided that he might have enough humorous anecdotes about Genevieve to sustain a book. With time on his hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication...
...struggled with making field goals all year. The team is 2-of-7 on field goals, although senior Anders Blewett has never missed an extra point in his three-year varsity career. Junior punter Adam Kingston is solid, possessing the ability to both kick the ball long and pooch it out-of-bounds inside the twenty yard-line. Sophomores Rodney Byrnes and Gary Sonkur have the ability to return a kick for a touchdown—Byrnes already returned one for an 89-yard score against Cornell. Morris, who has never met a punt he hasn’t wanted...
...struggled with making field goals all year. The team is 2-of-7 on field goals, although senior Anders Blewett has never missed an extra point in his three-year varsity career. Junior punter Adam Kingston is solid, possessing the ability to both kick the ball long and pooch it out-of-bounds inside the twenty yard-line. Sophomores Rodney Byrnes and Gary Sonkur have the ability to return a kick for a touchdown—Byrnes already returned one for an 89-yard score against Cornell. Morris, who has never met a punt he hasn’t wanted...