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Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...animal research puts an implicit higher value on human life than animal life. We humans do not have a right to consider ourselves so superior that we can use other animals' live to save our own. We are discriminating on the basis of species. But we already do that. Cat food contains meat including tuna, poultry, and veal. We must have decided at some time that our cats' lives were more important than the animals we're feeding them. By keeping some animals as pets, we are automatically condemning others to suffering. In 1987, 5 million British housecats killed...
...kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take off my shoes at the end of the day to avoid potentially poisoning my dog and cat...
...since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell cat...
...himself from the competition. This was more than simply the single biggest track-and- field failure of the entire Olympics; it was also a rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some observers began composing Bubka's professional obituary. Less than two months later, however, he was back in form...