Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled with old furniture as comfortable and shabby as an old sweater. There are hanging plants, a piano with a West Virginia wall-hanging above it and a big, dark-stained dining table where the 11 inhabitants eat the common supper they take turns cooking. A brown-and-white cat watched us steadily from the sill of a bay window. "It adopted us," Luscomb says, watching the cat swish its tail and survey a spider crawling on the outside of the glass...
...French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little. "You sleep a lot," was his advice to a fledgling dealer who asked the secret of success...
...says that he would marry her again tomorrow. He takes college courses in physical education when he is not hitting home runs and stealing bases, and plans to be a junior-college baseball coach when he retires from the game. Morgan vows: "I'll never be a fat cat. I'll always do constructive things." He feels not the slightest twinge of guilt about making more money than the President. "When people ask me that," he says, paraphrasing a famed riposte by Babe Ruth, "my answer is: 'Can the President hit Tom Seaver...
WIZARDS, the new animated feature by Ralph Bakshi (Fritz, the Cat), falls between a visionary epic and the conventional mayhem of Saturday-morning TV. Neither a kiddie cartoon nor an adult entertainment, the film is a whats it. Set in A.D. 2,000,000, it projects a world left over from a nuclear holocaust...
...made to your tearful waving-goodbye mother during that light-years-ago Freshman Week and you still tender your devotions regularly at Memorial Church on Sundays. If so, you will be familiar with the melodious handiwork of Lenora McCroskey, Assistant Organist and Choir Master there. She (not the cat's mother but McCroskey) will give a harpsichord recital in that be-steepled Greek temple opposite Widener that you might be going to 8:45 morning prayers at. Admission is free and the show sould be well worth listening...