Word: catting
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...skimp on the studio? Within weeks of announcing David Letterman's arrival early this year, CBS bought the old vaudeville theater, thus committing itself to a crazy, six-month renovation schedule. Polshek, an unerring and seriously underrated architect, not only rewired and replumbed the place and removed the cat-size rats and the running stream from the basement, but he also peeled away 57-year-old walls to discover the theater's original four-story Neo-Gothic apses on either side of the stage and, throughout the theater, a vast amount of decorative plasterwork, 40% of which ! needed replacing...
...comment that in the President's private family quarters a ''less inviting, don't-touch tidiness'' might soon be ''remedied by time, wear and Socks'' ((THE WHITE HOUSE, Dec. 6)). This prompted Nancy J.D. Harding of McLean, Virginia, to write us about a truly malicious presidential feline: ''One cat before Socks has already distinguished himself in the wreckage department -- Calvin Coolidge's.'' The pet, appropriately named Tiger, wore out his welcome very quickly. ''Evidently Tiger was a real 'Conan the Destroyer' beastie,'' reports Harding. ''His destructive ways cost the Coolidges a valuable antique bedspread and Tiger his stately home...
...couldn’t keep him down. He’d pop back up,” said his daughter, Karen Currier. “We used to say he was like the cat that had nine lives...
...they will attend over the weekend, she said.But for the procrastinating Halloween partyer, prepared costumes are the preferred choice. At Hootenanny, sexy cop and pirate costumes have been especially popular this year, Cole said.At Oona’s, inexpensive feather masks are a popular last-minute choice, as are cat and bunny outfits.More economically-minded students, however, seem to be recycling last year’s costumes by adding some extra flair. Tina M. Valverde ’06 is dressing up as Ursula from The Little Mermaid by combing out the hair from the wig she wore last year.Candace...
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