Word: cat
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...alibis. That name comes from the agent's ready explanation for the mark's inevitable failures. "You threw that one too high," he may say, thus persuading the mark that he can easily do better if he keeps playing. (One example of an alibi is the six-cat, in which a mark tries to knock a row of canvas cats off a shelf with a baseball-but fails because a mechanical device keeps the cats in place.) According to Dembroski, "Show owners almost always set a limit on the amount out of which any one mark...
...neither a Women's Lib advocate nor a pussy cat," says Genoves. His aim is to study friction between the sexes and to determine how human beings from diverse cultures and classes behave when they live at close quarters. Because the raft measures only 36 ft. by 20 ft., the trip should yield ample material for study. Genoves will go along to take notes on what he sees, and the voyage will be filmed by a cameraman for Mexico's state TV channel 13, which will pick up the $160,000 tab for the experiment...
...svelte, pneumatic upper-class bird named Philomela. Chuff (homonym for Chough, the acquisitive European jackdaw) is given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal capers. One night it is letting all the mink escape from a mink farm. Chuff notices how like the cages are to jail cells. Philomela comments: "Then it's Death Row." The next trip, they immolate a slaughterhouse. Destruction of a government installation...
Techniques for preserving the brain will probably be developed before similar procedures for an entire human. Already, physiologists have succeeded in preserving a cat's brain and reviving it, getting normal activity as measured by an EEG. Development of techniques for making contact with a free-floating brain are a long way off, but even the idea of research in this field is right out of a science fiction movie. How is a new home to be chosen for a preserved brain? What if it is unhappy in its new abode? It would be all to easy to forget that...
...CAT WITH MY foot on its tail shrieked suddenly, his vocal chords stretched out to their full length. I stepped back. Kathryn darted from across the room, picked the cat up and turned towards the door. One half of her attention was for the flea-bitten mutt-cat that she held in her arms to "comfort." The other half was for me. "Idiot," she said. "You hurt a kitties tail...