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...performs ably, pouting around and dressing like a billion francs. When it comes to making love, Grace knows how to play kitten on the tease. But the claws come out, elegantly manicured, of course, when Gary pays some attention to a pretty French girl ("You seemed to be conjugating some very irregular verbs with her"). At the moment when Grace grants Gary that consummation he so devoutly wishes, the camera deferentially turns to the window to watch the Vista-Vision heavens blaze with fireworks, courtesy of the Johnston Office...
...Black Sea exile at Yalta (the doctors ordered him out of the Moscow climate), Chekhov yearned for Moscow as wistfully as any of the famed trio in The Three Sisters. At 41, he made his last pass at life by marrying the actress Olga Knipper. He called her his "kitten," "pup," "lamb," and "my little crocodile," but she was really something of a big-name hunter out to bag the half-dead lion of the Russian theater. They scarcely lived together, but she was with him on a trip through Germany in 1904 when the final TB attack came...
...Balanced Scale. In Cape Town, South Africa, playing hooky from school, 13-year-old Peter Schroder rescued a marooned kitten from a 60-ft. pine tree, got 1) a $1.50 reward from the grateful owner, 2) a medal from the Animal Welfare Society, 3) a sound thrashing from his headmaster, who said: "Peter is a hero, but if he plays truant, he must also take his medicine...
...firm-footed bopster a la Lennie Tristano; in Until the Real Thing Comes Along he chuckles along like a latter-day Fats Waller; his How High the Moon is rhythmically soulful, with fistfuls of notes; he toys with I Get a Kick Out of You like a playful kitten...
British Israelites are partial to an unorthodox philological theory that holds the English language to be derived from Hebrew. Thus bar (son) reappears in the British "bairn"; peri (fruit) in "berry"; katon (little) in "kitten." The word "British" is simply a rendering of Berit-ish (covenant...