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Cats, love 'em or hate 'em, are a hot number. Plain or fancy, pampered or ignored, barn mousers or apartment pets, they have captured the American imagination. They are becoming a national mania. In fact, cats are even gaining on dogs. Thirty-four million cats-often in multiples-inhabit 24% of America's households, an increase of 55% in the past decade. The dog population, meanwhile, has stabilized in recent years at some 48 million. In Washington, D.C., and New York, feline adoptions from animal shelters have zoomed 30% in the past three or four years. Cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Outside the simple sheep barn, a few visitors take their last look at Leahy's New England village, set behind a large pond. Others crane at the 40-ft.-tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture of mourning. Buying their last baked potato with sour cream and bacon, taking their last aim at ducks in the gallery shoot, or sizing up a young heifer, most visitors seem oblivious or indifferent to the fact that they are among the last to attend the Great Danbury State Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: A Fair Goes Dark | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...playtime purposeful. On the prairie, leisure hours consisted of quilting bees and barn raisings. In New England, a relaxed weekend in the late 1800s was a practice muster of local fire companies. The country has always blended its fun with self-improvement and dreaming up gimmicks large and small to help. In young democracies like the U.S., Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "each generation is a new people." The cult of youthfulness and the idea of a fresh start have forged the national character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...snappish dog was unnecessary in the days before Garp. But after his smashing success, Irving's 19th century converted red barn became a target for autograph seekers and scraggly youths offering to do odd jobs for a chance to receive Garpian wisdom at the feet of their reluctant guru. In fact, before Irving's rugged head was known to the nation, the author was a Putney person who did advertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...your life back like some kind of ornamental shrub. I couldn't put the old white horse out to pasture, hock the tin armor, stand the lance in the corner of the barn. For a while, yes. For the healing time...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Descent Into Hell | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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