Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...
...private discussions, investigative reporters like Bob Woodward of Watergate fame (who also broke the Hussein story) describe their role in cat-mouse terms: it's the Government's job to keep secrets, the reporter's job to ferret them out. Editorially defending its story, the Post sanctimoniously praised President Carter for insisting "that a much better effort must be made by the Government to keep its secrets?especially the CIA's." This really isn't satisfactory: even if the CIA were effectively keeping its secret, others who might be interested in leaking the story include Palestinian rebels, the Israelis...
...succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and Thomas Pynchon's brilliant Gravity's Rainbow. A notable failure of this genre is Thomas Bernhard's The President, currently...
...scenery and the costumes, which cost $300,000, are a dazzling plus. But the acting is, surprisingly, no more than competent. Elizabeth Ashley is a vital Cleopatra - half alley cat, half Queen - but more Shakespeare's lady of the Nile than Shaw's. Rex Harrison's Caesar is a burnt-out case who does not seem to remember what it was like to be warm - let alone what it was like to be Caesar. Gerald Clarke
...CHANGED, however, and in The Late Show ulcer-ridden Ira Welles is having trouble learning to digest the new L.A. ambience. He's old, has a bad stomach and a game leg. Besides, no one hires private detectives anymore, unless it's for something screwy like finding a kidnapped cat. This is the first key angle in Robert Benton's script: the once respected and feared detective who's fallen on fallen times. Then there's the other angle: the funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily...