Word: cat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leykis of Los Angeles prefers more dramatic measures. When singer Cat Stevens expressed support of the Ayatullah Khomeini's death threat against author Salman Rushdie, Leykis donned a hard hat and crushed a pile of Stevens' records with a steamroller...
Some of these on-air campaigns have drawn fire. When Leykis, of KFI-AM in Los Angeles, announced plans for a public burning of Cat Stevens records (fire-department objections forced him to switch to a steamroller), fellow KFI talk host Geoff Edwards denounced his tactics as "fascist" and refused to air his promotional spots. Edwards lost his job as a result. "You've got a lot of people with questionable credentials manipulating people's emotions," he gripes. "A guy who was a rock-'n'-roll deejay last week ((might be)) calling for the bombing of Iran...
Scruffy the Cat, Poi Dog Pondering, Knots and Crosses, Spiral Jetty...
...film industry is like a cat with nine lives. It constantly seems to be able to come up with a new salvation. First there was the VCR, which has saved films that were theatrical failures, and now the opening up of European television puts a new value on second- and third-run new films. The film industry is probably on life six or seven...
...hitches around to look back at his companion, Jeanette, who sits on the bed doing something with stacks of tiny Ziploc bags. "Wasn't that '81, hon?" Taking a mumble for confirmation, Big John peers beyond the cat stretched out in the sunlight on the dashboard. "There are 150 narcs running around out there, and everybody is in a stampede to roll over. Everybody and his brother is distributing Product, and it's getting to be a dog-eat-dog world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down...