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...Certainly dogs (and cats) are being overbred by puppy and kitten "mills" to be peddled to pet shops and on to the public. Add to that the irresponsible owner who thinks it is just great to have a litter of unwanted puppies or kittens so that the children can see the "miracle of birth." They ought to take the kids out to the animal shelters so that they could also see the miracle of death as thousands of homeless strays are killed every day in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1974 | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sibling Revelry | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...been long since Superpatriot John Wayne, 66, recorded a pep talk for his countrymen called America, Why I Love Her. Among the numbers was The Good Things, a panegyric to the mundane virtues of American life: "A fireman who climbs a tree and sets a little kitten free," and, of course, the "men who love their wives." It turns out that Wayne's memory of the good things is faulty. His third wife Pilar, 45, will not, after all, be the girl with whom he rides into the sunset, because after 19 years of marriage and three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1973 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where God intended neither species to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold and Grit | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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