Word: owl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics say, cannot possibly appeal to the young, to ethnic groups and to those who live in cities, where the pollution problem is worst. His message, "This land is your land . . . Keep it clean!", is not exactly a zinger, either. The U.S. Forest Service has countered with Woodsy the Owl, presumably a wise and likable bird whose message, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute," may have a better chance of reaching children; they in turn might be counted on to badger their parents about littering and similar offenses...
...only 15 and has never had a drink. But Yolanda King, daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., raised a thunder of applause at her debut last week as the dirty-mouthed whore in The Owl and the Pussycat at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. The story line did not seem to bother her mother Coretta. But Grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. and the more conservative members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church were outraged. Yolanda managed to mollify them. "Though I didn't like the language," she said, "I felt that the play had something very important...
...idea that led to alibi tapes came to Leisure Data President Steve Lichtenstein when he saw the movie The Owl and the Pussycat. "George Segal had this tape of a barking dog," he remembers, "and I suddenly saw the possibilities. The whole country is paranoid, especially city apartment dwellers. So I got an attack dog and taped him trying to chew me up. It began selling 1,000 copies a week all over the country, just so people could switch it on when the doorbell rang." Soon Lichtenstein's out-of-work friends asked him to tape a selection...
Scottie started the boom-boom barrage with a White Owl wallop that made the cameraman bring out the telescopic lens. K.C.'s Dan Drago had barely got an "Aw Shucks" off his lips when Billy C. put the wood to the leather and left Drago praying for Divine Intervention. But, lo and behold, "Scratch-hit" Montgomery sent Drago looking for a bar of Dia soup and some Head and Shoulders as he showed that big blasts can come from little packages...
...bass, the group was soon able to earn something like $12 a night. Despite its low income, it was quite a good band. What it proved while it lasted was that Taylor had somehow evolved into an accomplished musician. Most of his songs?including Knocking 'Round the Zoo, Night Owl and Rainy Day Man, which were later recorded for Apple in the James Taylor album?were first written for the Flying Machine...