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...Chuppies, as they're locally dubbed) find a poodle or a schnauzer or a schnoodle (a cross between the two breeds) the perfect accompaniment to their modern lives. Just a couple years ago, my own miniature schnauzer, Cassius, used to be mistaken on the streets of Shanghai for a rabbit because of her extravagant ears and gray coat. No longer. Everyone in Shanghai, it seems, now knows someone who owns a xue-nai-rui, as the German breed is known in Mandarin...
...were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through the sky with whistles attached to their tails, the occasional rabbit. Genghis, however, was a novelty; he scared children and grown men alike...
...various folktales, gum, wax or other sticky material is used to trap a person." The term itself was popularized by the 19th-century Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris, in which the character Br'er Fox makes a doll out of tar to ensnare his nemesis Br'er Rabbit. The Oxford American Dictionary defines tar baby much like Romney used it, "a difficult problem, that is only aggravated by attempts to solve it." But the term also has had racial implications. In his book Coup, John Updike says of a white woman who prefers the company of black...
...this magazine twice, once in 1968 and again in 1982. The first time was for Couples, his then scandalous, still shocking novel of suburban partner swapping. The headline read THE ADULTEROUS SOCIETY. When he made the cover again, having just won nearly every literary award in existence for Rabbit Is Rich, the third in his four-volume Rabbit saga, he rated a somewhat tamer caption: GOING GREAT...
AHMAD'S DISGUST WITH WESTERN CIVILIZATION MAPS NEATLY--NOT TOO NEATLY BUT MORE NEATLY THAN YOU'D EXPECT--ONTO THE CRITIQUE OF LATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICA THAT WE SAW IN THE RABBIT BOOKS: THE DISGUST WITH JUNK FOOD AND OBESITY AND POP CULTURE. And waste, the American waste. I find myself very disturbed lately by the fact that restaurants give you more than any sane person would want to eat, and food is packaged in bigger and bigger containers now so that you try to buy a mere quart of ginger ale and you have to buy a gallon...