Word: dachshunds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expectant mother became upset. Doggie gossip spreads like wild-fire: while the victims returned to court, the community found Acey guilty without a trial. Just the other night, Porter and fellow path denizen Rick Lamb rehashed the incident in hushed tones as a Harvard student hurried past. Watching his dachshund chase after a bouncy bee-hive toy, Lamb sighed "Acey doesn't come around here any more...
...designer's South Beach villa, where his blood still stained the front steps. What she discovered there was more like a Versace catwalk than a crime scene. "It was totally surreal," says Drummond. "There was a squirrel on a leash perched atop a man's head. A dachshund wearing a necklace pranced about, and models were everywhere, mugging for the cameras...
...with the deference they felt they had earned. In one of the excellent catalog essays for "Exiles and Emigres," the writer Lawrence Weschler compares their idea of themselves to "Roman nobility in the rustic provinces...as stubbornly patronizing and aloof as the locals were sometimes naive and gauche." The dachshund story sums them up--as it does the situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California, and schmooze about their fortunes. "Here, it's true, I'm a dachshund," says one to the other...