Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hakim admits the validity of the robbery charge. He also acknowledges that the rape was committed, but denies that he did it. "Here was the thing. When I was getting the dough, this cat that was with me, Teddy, took the woman in the back, you know. I told him to take the woman in the back, tie her up and gag her so we could get away, you know, He, took her in the back and screwed her. Okay, I come back then to see what he's spending so much time in. He was into his thing...
...Gesture. What the paintings of Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People...
...Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...
...Here is Cartoonist Joe Barbera displaying a large illustration of a beagle and a cat, central characters in a pilot cartoon about middle-class family life as seen through the eyes of their pets. "Can't sell it," complains the illustrator. [The networks] say it's too gentle. They want hard action...
...used to be able to get down 2,000 words a day," he laments. "Now I'm happy if I can do 1,000." If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long...