Word: sheepdog
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...shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things, dresses for every day of the week, to have good jeans and lots of other things. Because...
...Atlanta, where Chapman spent most of his childhood, he joined a high school rock band and, like millions of others, worshiped the Beatles. He wore his hair long, in the distinctive Beatles cut, with strands flopping like a sheepdog's over his forehead. He experimented with drugs, which his idols condoned, and dropped acid when he was only 15. His parents strongly disapproved of the drugs, as well as of the Beatles, and would not let him play their records in the house. They searched his room, and once, when his mother warned him not to lock his bedroom...
...this garden conversation, Annie compares Norman to a shaggy Old English sheepdog. Zito translates that canine quality into a portrayal of the philandering Norman that outshines everyone in a show with several excellent performances. A natural on stage, Zito imbues Norman with a childish whimsicality and impetuousness that, like the three women in the play, you can't help adoring--and, ultimately, despising...
...takes hours of work to fluff an Old English Sheepdog into shape for a dog show, like the Eastern Dog Club Show, held last month at Hynes Auditorium and pictured here. Between shows a weekly brushing suffices, but even this can be a painstaking, four-hour job of combing out matted hair in the dog's undercoat. In fact, many owners tire of the excessive grooming, and abandon their sheepdogs to dog pounds and humane societies. Sometimes, the dogs are casualties of divorces and job transfers, or they may be left behind because they grow larger and more rowdy than...