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...daily birth control pills for fecund bitches and orthopedic braces for dachshunds (whose elongated proportions make them prone to backaches) to monster gas-filled balloons that can deliver anesthetics during surgery on horses. Still, the greatest interest was stirred by the plethora of scientific papers underscoring a little-known facet of the pet craze: for all their infatuation with the animal kingdom, Americans all too often mistreat their pets-frequently out of misguided kindness...
Moreover, the advisability of choosing an athletic director from within the University is another facet of the selection process which the search committee has apparently overlooked. Although the pressure politics surrounding Peck's withdrawal created an ugly incident for all involved, the whole affair might have been avoided if the committee had considered more than their personal whims to begin with...
Romance has not just gone crazy in the City of the One Night Stands, it's gone kaput, period. The most unsettling facet of this death-of-love motif is the pervasiveness of its reality among the film's otherwise diverse characters. The malaise afflicts the professionally fulfilled executive (Harvey Keitel) as deeply as his hopelessly unfulfilled housewife (Geraldine Chaplin), who fancies herself a modernday Camille, running around spouting melodrama and sipping Carroll's Southern Comfort between lines. It fails to discriminate between John Considine's hail-fellow-well-met furniture dealer and Carradine's petulant artiste. With one noteworthy...
Among the Florida citrus groves and stands of Arizona cacti, the boys of summer are loosening up their highly priced limbs. When the conversation is not about the greening of their America -baseball salaries have soared in three years-it is about another lively new facet of the grand old game...
...sole possession of first place in the Ivy League, an exhilarating achievement that has galvanized Morningside Heights. The new-found success of the once lowly Lions has struck an upbeat note in that microcosm of a community surrounded by the basketball-crazed West Side, but it is only one facet of the resurgence of college basketball in New York City. New York has long been recognized as the cradle for collegiate basketball, but until this year New Yorkers seldom saw the products of their playgrounds as more than overnight visitors at Madison Square Garden...