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...From the cameo-smoke Maine Coon to the lavender-silver . Oriental Shorthair, there are approximately 50 hue and pattern variations of fur among the 33 breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. But differences other than the decorative are important to prospective owners. Personality, price, size and even voice guide selection. The following short alphabetical catalogue of standard and exotic breeds demonstrates the spectrum...
...played by Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 49, toiled briefly as a plump Washington matron, shed 40 lbs. and then made her triumphant Broadway debut in Little Foxes. As we resume our story, Liz tells the producers of ABC's General Hospital that she would like to play a cameo role. And so she does, in five appearances beginning this week, playing Helena Cassadine (widow of former GH Villain Mikkos Cassadine). Alas, it should be recorded that her effort is not pluperfect. It seems that Liz, in a repeat of last year's Tony Award speech-when she referred...
...Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, cameo) d. Corman...
...weird metaphors than a story. For instance, she walks into her office at SCLC to find Dr. Martin Luther King sitting at her desk. But even with the opportunity to enlarge our concept of this human monument, Angelou fails to present Dr. King in more than a bizarre cameo: "Looking at him, in my office, alone, was like seeing a lion sitting down at my dining room table eating a plate of mustard greens." Somehow the lion strength of the man related to his down-to-earth appearance in such a description does not expand our portrait of Dr. King...
Greeley tracks the men to the 1978 papal elections, a maneuver that allows him to ransack his own nonfiction book, The Making of the Popes, 1978, and to use Pope John Paul II in a cameo role, praying for Cardinal Donahue's dying mistress. Along the way there are other, even less beguiling vignettes: in one scene Greeley portrays "a disciple of the Berrigans'," proclaiming that "we will make bombs, find guns; we will burn, trash and destroy." That is not what the Berrigans have ever preached, as Greeley well knows. But it is a symptom...