Word: sheeps
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...Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch will then save Wallace in a breathless climax whose brio and ingenuity shame any live-action thriller...
...that while humans cannot contract the bovine disease, the consumption of beef from cattle bearing the disease may be a factor in developing the human brain sickness. The spread of mad cow disease is thought to have stemmed from a traditional British farming practice of including portions of dead sheep in cattle feed; a brain disease in sheep may thus have spread to the cattle herds, and is now triggering the human brain condition. As a precautionary measure, many British school systems have dropped beef from their school menus. "From a scientific point of view the whole issue is unsettled...
...acts are Bosstones, Digable Planets, George Clinton, Ani di Franco, Freddy Jones, Method Man, Oasis and Black Sheep...
...populists also had a recurrent nativist streak. Beyond simple prejudice or anti-Semitism, immigration was a threat because newcomers entered the work force and competed with the "good ol' boys." Eastern Europeans and the Chinese were especially unpopular among the populists; they referred to these immigrants as "black sheep" or "ignorant animals" who were accustomed to "using bombs instead of ballots...
...Dole probably hates the phrase, if only because of who coined it, it applies to watching him on the campaign trail: you feel his pain. He showed up Tuesday morning for what was to be a triumphant victory speech before the state legislature; these were his people, the sheep of his pasture, and if he ever hoped for an inspiring moment, this was as good a chance as any. But all night his staff had fought over what he should say. The first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will, was too strident, too mean, "too much red meat...