Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Appropriately enough, given the history of mutual suspicion between human beings and felines, an informal poll of staffers who worked on the story reveals a roughly even split between cat defenders and detractors. "Cats are more photogenic than dogs," says Photographer Neil Leifer, who took the cover photo and five other pictures for the story, "but I'm much more a dog person." Leifer owns two dogs, a Hungarian sheep dog and a golden retriever, and has no plans to inflict a cat on them. Rosemarie Tauris, one of the story's reporter-researchers, has no pets...
...Cat: One Hell of a nice animal, frequently mistaken for a meatloaf...
From deification to demonization, and every stage in between, attitudes toward cats have been confused, variable, peculiar, consuming, jittery and, ultimately, baffling. Those sinuous forms represented in Egyptian art, valued as rodent-chasers by farmers, or draped luxuriously over an apartment radiator have elicited the best and worst from mankind in the 5,000 years since their domestication. The dog may be man's best friend, but the cat is his most perplexing one, if, indeed...
...prodigious number of Americans have become smitten with cats. Others continue to bad-mouth felines. Are cats stouthearted companions or unresponsive curmudgeons? Or are they, as Cartoonist Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first...
...Easterns, the booters were accustomed to last-minute magic and come-from-behind conquests. Just a week before, in the overtime period of the Ivy Tournament finals against a fired-up Brown eleven, co-captain Cat Ferrante drilled home a rebound with 30 seconds left in the extra stanza to give the Crimson its third Ivy crown in four years...