Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they say in Hollywood, looked great. Three top stars in the movie version of a Pulitzer prizewinning comedy that was also a long-running Broadway hit. A show that found sympathetic humor in incidents that scream like headlines from a Mississippi tabloid: MAMA MAGRATH HANGS SELF AND PET CAT! LENNY MAGRATH'S HORSE STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING! MEG MAGRATH VAMPS CRIPPLED EX-FLAME! BABE MAGRATH BOTRELLE SHOOTS HUSBAND " 'CAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE HIS LOOKS"! A family album of three contentious sisters who laugh and fight and cry and finally surrender to the bond of sororal love. Directed for film...
...Cat victory marked the first time in the six-game history of Harvard-Vermont match-ups that the Crimson has ended up on the low side of the score...
Larson credits Don Martin of Mad magazine, George Booth of The New Yorker and B. Kliban, famed for his cat cartoons, with influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows...
...Cat in the Picture, for example, a retired Army officer and his wife have settled into what seems to be a peaceful and stable routine. He dabbles at painting; she reads and turns out occasional book reviews. One rainy night, a stray cat drops through the skylight in the captain's studio and moves in with them, apparently for good. The next morning, seeing the animal in a bowl that forms part of a still life her husband has arranged, the wife says, "If you could paint that -- that would be a picture." The remark is not intended in entire...
Something analogous occurs in Drrdla. While working in his basement, a man discovers an almost starved and totally feral cat. Saving and taming the creature becomes first his project and then his obsession: "What it all came down to, in Walter's opinion, was the emergence of life from darkness." His wife makes fun of his efforts and then, he becomes convinced, conspires against them, making as much noise as she possibly can in order to frighten the animal. She sees things differently: "If just her living in the house disturbed his little rodent, perhaps she should think of taking...