Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMARCORD. A great movie. Federico Fellini's autobiographical fantasy about growing up in the seaside town of Rimini is lavish, pungent, full to bursting with the kind of encompassing, consuming affection for people that is the property of the true poet.
With infinite variation but only slight exaggeration, some such table d'hôte is presented daily in countless American households. Samantha the cat, Buddy the beagle, Carol the canary, and myriad other furred, finned, scaly and feathered creatures are not only members of the great extended U.S. family...
Most often, however, humans attempt to endow their pets with human qualities, deluding themselves and demeaning animals. Many married couples who are unwilling or unable to have children adopt animals instead, embarking on a quasi-parental relationship without the responsibilities and hazards involved in child rearing. "If your romance is...
Status Symbols. "It is truly amazing," wrote Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, "to what extent popular taste permits libidinous attachments to animals without clear recognition of their essentially sexual nature" (though, admittedly, it is hard to envision even a subliminal sexual relationship between humans and such pets as alligators, bats, cobras, hedgehogs...
Greene's text is a touch parodic and patronizing, but Edward Ardizzone's marvelous new pen and ink and watercolor washes use the soft hues of Thomas Rowlandson to celebrate a detailed affection for Little Snoreing and its inhabitants.