Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style tested the conditioning of the halfbacks, particularly the wing halfs, junior Laura Mayer and co-captain Cat Ferrante, who have the double duty of helping defensively and receiving feeds to the outside from the strikers on the attack...
...works, Irving plays a game of cat and mouse in which he is a jaded feline devising kinky ways to devour his characters. He takes great pains to create elaborate family trees, but they are ultimately rotten at their roots. It's no wonder he's so popular; his books are just one big freak show, with bizarre high jinks and cheap shocks introduced regularly to titillate his audience...
...hope to parlay the backlash against Reagan's policies into increased contributions. Next week, for example, loyalists will gather in Washington to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nader's Public Interest Research Groups and Public Citizen. These days, Nader has no qualms about trying to attract "fat cat" contributors; the dinner will cost $1,000 a plate...
...glowing yellows. They are produced by the PET scanner, one of a series of machines that are helping make diagnosis less of an art and more of a science. The PET scanner looks rather like a sophisticated airplane engine, with a hollow core. It is a cousin of the CAT scanner that nearly a decade ago wedded the technique of X rays with computer technology to give cross-sectional views of internal body structures, not just bones but soft tissues as well. But scanning by CAT (for computerized axial tomography) is limited to anatomy. It lets doctors see an organ...
...nerves. On the morning of the day her new play, a suspense comedy titled A Talent for Murder, opened in Washington, D.C., the fire alarms rang in her hotel and everyone was ordered to flee the building. She scurried around, picking up valuables and trying to coax Bijou, the cat, from under the bed. By the time Bijou was out, the gongs were silent -false alarm-but the damage was done. "I was shaking for 20 minutes," she explained later...