Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bestseller in Germany. Whatever Buchheim's intention, his commander, a dour 30-year-old invariably referred to as the Old Man, comes off as the foreman of a band of master plumbers who seem to spend most of their time wrapped around greasy tubing talking about their alley-cat sex lives...
...life as a member of the underground. Not only has he undergone plastic surgery, claimed the onetime Yippie leader, but he took a daytime job for a while, began going to night classes, married a second time, and even survived a minor drug arrest without being recognized. The cat-and-mouse game between fugitive radicals and the police "is the greatest show in the world, and I got the best seats there are," boasted Abbie. "I'm almost grateful to the cops who busted me for making me get off my ass. What's there to go back...
...karate class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then it suddenly goes crazy...
...discontinuous reality, he has made a film that, like most of life itself, is boring. From the perch of his director's seat he surveys the ennui-stricken masses who pour into the movie theaters, hungering for an insight into the chaos that engulfs them. His response; let them cat symbols...
With the sinewy shoulders of a tight end, the arms of a shotputter and the cat-quick moves of a guard, McGinnis is virtually unstoppable on the court. Certainly no one could contain him this year; he finished the regular season as the A.B.A.'s leading scorer (29.8 points per game), second leading ball thief (2.6 steals), third leading playmaker (6.3 assists) and fifth leading rebounder (14.3 per game). He charges around the court so hard that he sometimes bursts the seams of his size 14½ sneakers. During a recent game with the Denver Nuggets, officials...