Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture, and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap for snobs. ABBEY CINEMA...
...scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody can hit his thumb; a cat-shaped traveling bag with handles and a perforated Plexiglas nose for taking one's pet tabby on a trip; an "absorbent bottle" made out of sponge, "to double its capacity"; and an undulating Ping Pong table, to "project the ball unpredictably...
...federal grant. But both mass and specialty magazines can ask to be spared from radical changes in the rules of economic engagement, from cost increases that demolish all previous cost equations. It requires little imagination to predict what would happen to the hundreds of apolitical periodicals like Cat Fancy Magazine, Film Comment, Black Stars, and Turtle and Tortoise Monthly -as well as the mass-circulation magazines. The loss of any publication diminishes civilized tradition and shrivels belief in the power of the written word. It is a notion that Jonathan Swift could have constructed: the Post Office is solvent...
...food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had a greedy and hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when your homeland's turning into an inferno, the seaside's not at all a bad place...