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...radiator to blast more oxygen into the fuel mix. Many of Lauren's cars were produced in limited editions, sometimes very limited. In the case of the plump 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe, that means three. That may have had something to do with its improbable steel ridgeback seam, several inches high, like a Mohawk haircut that bisects the car lengthwise, coursing along the hood, over the bulbous roof and down the steep slope of its trunk. A pure aesthetic flourish on the part of Jean Bugatti, son of company founder Ettore, the riveted seam gives...
...point--The Lovely Bones). Paul Iverson, a 44-year-old linguistics professor, comes home to find that his wife Lexy has fallen from the apple tree in her backyard. Or jumped--he can't tell, and the only witness to her fall is a dog, a large, affectionate Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei. Paul becomes obsessed with finding out how his wife died. He sets out to teach Lorelei to talk so she can tell...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...arrival I got a look at the animal life in the Wise household: a friendly tortoise-shell cat, Alice; Marbury Madison, the ears-akimbo German shepherd/Rhodesian ridgeback mix who looks like a cringing, neurotic mess; and the 26-month-old Wise twins, Christopher and Siena, holy terrors known in the family as "the soldiers of entropy...
...nights of coverage on the USA network, and for the third year in a row the dogs beat ESPN's star-studded ESPY Awards in the ratings. Not that Westminster doesn't have its stars. Bill Cosby owns a highly regarded lakeland terrier, Greg Louganis entered a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre's cousin, C.J. Favre, showed a puli and a Kerry blue. In general, there is an appealing warp to the woof at Westminster: Where else can you find society matrons whooping it up with 4-H Clubbers, or vendors bellowing "Champagne here"? A vendor named...