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Compared to British children, Grub, now three, nonetheless has a few deficiencies. He cannot moo like a cow, for example, or quack like a duck. But he can imitate the soft whooping of the hyena, and when he wants to, he can sound like a lion, a wild dog, a chimp or a jackal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Chimps Instead of Spock | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

Skirted Subjects. In truth, that is what she has been playing all along. Though she is a superb comedienne and a subtle actress, Reid is called upon to moo and moan around the set with scarcely a shred of alleviating humanity. York's innate beauty and growing skills are dissipated in a role that calls for little more than wide eyes and elliptical chatter. What is most wrong with The Killing of Sister George is its essential conception. Director Robert Aldrich has regrettably decided to make this adaptation of Frank Marcus' play into pure Hollywood Gothica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Ever Happened to Childie McNaught? | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: District Attorneys: Jolly Green Giant in Wonderland | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...fact," said one of them, her eye-brows batting in amazement, "last night we were sitting around and a guy came up and said, 'Do you want hear me moo?' and he began mooing, and hee-hawing! Then he said, 'Look at the beautiful birds in the trees,' and he began chirping...

Author: By Michael J. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Girls Beef About the Beef And Resist Being Contented Cows | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Rats squeak, cows moo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Treasured Ibis Turns Frogman | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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