Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katie is struggling within seconds. Her Border collie lunges at a trio of sheep, sending them skittering in panic. "Down, Tess," she yells, to little effect. The guru takes her elbow. "We'll try to dispense with some of that energy," he says. Within 10 minutes, aided by a flexible wand and a set of arcane commands--Come bye, Away to me, Take time--he has woven girl, collie and ewes into a graceful choreography of pursuit and capture. The next time Katie calls "Down," Tess prostrates herself smartly. "Look at that," the guru exclaims. "I thought you said that...
...however, competitive sheepherding ranks among the fastest-growing outdoor sports in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, perhaps a dozen sheepdog trials were held each year; now there are more than 250. Tens of thousands of prosperous suburbanites, like those here, spend every weekend training their dogs to usher scatterbrained sheep into formations of almost military precision. And each handler dreams of being the next MacRae, who for the past four years (three of them with Nan, the Michael Jordan of Border collies) has dominated the U.S. National Finals...
Dreyfus appears to have responses prepared for current council issues as well, ranging from Living Wage ("I have never felt that the old barter economy, when wages in the form of sheep and goats were in fact 'living,' is something we should return to," he says) to a termbill fee increase ("Increasing it to $50 smacks of tokenism," he claims, suggesting that the whole of each student's yearly tuition go directly to the council...
...first glance at their platform makes Frank X. Leonard '01 and Katie E. Tenney '01 seem like wolves in sheep's clothing...
...David Walker. Whether outfitting a corps of ballerinas or of mice, his costumes are spectacular. Particularly amusing is Mother Ginger (Tony Collins) in his last transvestite performance after 34 years as the massive lady with eight children tucked away under her skirt. And the four children dressed as marzipan sheep are just cute enough to elicit some gasps otherwise forbidden in the restrained world of ballet audience protocol...