Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forgets it and gets to talking about a stray cat from a carnival pitch, a good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...
...Toronto, St. Clair Hilborn, charged with giving his son a lethal dose of sleeping pills, explained that he had been hexed by a black cat which shook its head at Hilborn, nodded significantly...
...important as possible against the day when Congress might merge them. The Navy had a clear duty and responsibility for overseas bases and the ships to base there-but beyond that, the Navy was trying to make itself too big a mouse for the Army-Air Force cat to swallow if the dreaded merger should come...
...deceived by the "strategy of camouflage" to which the regime had turned after the failure of Germany in the Ardennes. It was still the same old spotted cat. "By its brutal use of force and terrorist methods to strike down all opposition from the Argentine people* the military regime has made a mockery of its pledge to the United Nations 'to reaffirm faith in human rights' in the dignity and worth of the human person...
Since 1940, Stravinsky has lived in his own house in Hollywood ("The only way to escape Hollywood is to live there"), where he composes in a Celotex-lined room. When he is not working he passes time with his rose gardens, four pairs of lovebirds and a friendly black cat who sleeps on the birds' cages. Though he has never written for films, he has composed for almost everything else. He wrote ballets for Ringling Brothers' Circus and for Billy Rose (Scenes de Ballet), a dissonantly reharmonized Star-Spangled Banner (to celebrate his U.S. citizenship...