Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another in the seemingly interminable series of secret talks aimed at ending the war in Viet Nam. Lacking any formal announcements of either final agreement or impasse, newsmen concentrated on the omens-and they were ambiguous. As Kissinger emerged from one session, a nearly all-black cat jumped atop his Cadillac limousine. At another meeting in the private home of an American jeweler in fashionable Neuilly-sur-Seine, Kissinger pointed at the ceiling and said with a puckish smile: "When the light bulb starts blinking, it means we have to change the tape." As the North Vietnamese laughed, Kissinger assured...
...quip rather than the cat seemed to symbolize the state of the talks. In the general atmosphere of friendliness, definite progress was reported, and one high U.S. source estimated that there was only a 5% chance that the talks could break down. In fact, Hanoi seemed to be preparing its North Vietnamese listeners for an imminent cease-fire and some concessions to the enemy. "There is a time for us to advance," intoned Radio Hanoi, "but there is also a time for us to step backward temporarily, in order to advance more steadily later. Sometimes we must accept a certain...
Until like a cat I unwound...
...knew the moves... all the moves, "...there ain't nothing in the world... like a big-eyed girl... to make me act so funny... make me spend my money..." The crowd parted. Spike and Mary Lou accepted the spotlight. Back and forth. Jitterbug rock. Through the legs... skin the cat. Up and out. Over the hip. Round and round. It was like the World Series, and bigger than Joe DiMaggio. Man what sport. Boogie... Boogie... Yeah...
...Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Richard Brooks directed and adopted the Tennessee Williams play for the screen. Perfectly cast, with Paul Newman as Brick, an honorable but emasculated cripple, Elizabeth Taylor as his frustrated wife Maggie (the cat), and Burl Ives as his father Big Daddy, whose death and inheritance all the family save Brick and Maggie yearn for. One of the more palatable of the Williams films, and Brook's best...