Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his senior year, during which he directed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Rubins left Cambridge for a year. He spent the sabbatical from Harvard drama directing and writing children's theater in the forests of Maine...
...Lady," has been posting bulletins about the city and its inhabitants in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. A self-styled "traveler in residence," she has always been able to turn quite ordinary things-two people looking in a store window, a small parade, a cat crouching under a parked van-into "moments of recognition." Her old-fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas Eve. It begins, characteristically, in a very low key, as a painstaking portrait...
SQUEAKY CLEANS. A description used by Singer Bette Midler to characterize fans of the soft, often poetic songs of such bards as Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Melanie. This is an orderly dating crowd in its late teens and early 20s who are interested in love songs. Girls generally outnumber the boys by 2 to 1. Melanie's ethereal fans tend to invade the stage, only to sit quietly at her feet, perhaps lighting candles. Mitchell's following emulates her. "Since Joni started wearing gowns," says Wolf, "the girls have started wearing dresses and makeup...
...since the cease-fire was signed 18 months ago would be called war almost anywhere else. Last week in the old "iron triangle," South Vietnamese units finally, after an agonizing battle, chased North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regulars from one of three outposts they had recently captured near Ben Cat, a strategically important district town 25 miles north of Saigon. The next day the Communists launched a strong counterattack, which ended in failure. In spite of repeated air strikes by South Vietnamese Skyraiders, however, the two neighboring posts remained in the hands of the Communists. From advance positions the North...
...over $10,000 last year, which more than pays his keep. Moreover, he has tripled 9-Lives' sales. Obviously having long since lost control of his biographer, Morris serenely concentrated on grooming his whiskers while Daniels coyly revealed that his choice for his own memoir had been Any Cat...