Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whether dancing or sizing up her latest admirer, Fariah displays a weary amusement and a matter-of-fact satisfaction in her own eroticism that reminds us strangely of an equatorial Wife of Bath, a figure of all womanhood. And young moderns will appreciate the Femme fatale's Cheilike pink cat's-eye sunglasses. In both these wandering gypsies, there is a touching mingling of the pathetic and the gallant, making them especially moving studies of a developing civilization...
...more than two decades, he was instrumental in shaping key civil liberties legislation, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A good Congressman, Celler once said, must have "the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat and the good humor of an idiot...
...ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional cat man. "Everybody's got too many lions...
...neither man may get a chance to test those policies in office. "By the time the [Rabin-Peres] battle is over," Jerusalem Post Columnist Philip Gillon commented recently, the winner "will have as much hope of beating Begin as a celluloid dog would have of catching an asbestos cat in Hades...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...