Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Owner Donna Dunlop adds: "It's not just children and the elderly who have cats, it's young professionals in their 30s who are getting them." The inconvenience of owning a dog in a city, where apartment sizes have shrunk and pooper-scooper laws make the litter pan look like a less burdensome alternative, may also explain the recent upsurge in catomania. Says New York's A.S.P.C.A. executive director, John Kullberg, about the guard dog-cat controversy: "If you buy a cat, you can always get an extra lock for the door...
...cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit a variety of dead and near dead things at the back door and stalk away for a nap. He may shred the antique silk draperies or decide that the shower stall is a Bauhaus litter pan. Whether the cat is friend or foe, many would agree with the prominent 18th century naturalist, the Count de Buffon. The cat, he wrote, "appears to have feelings only for himself, loves only conditionally and only enters into relations [with people] in order to abuse them...
...stereotypical characters; lawyers, doctors, philosophers, and woodchoppers; fathers, daughters, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The crispness of their timing pays tribute to Serban's directorial presence. The succession of escapades which entangle the various Sganarelles come alive precisely on cue. Standing out in particular are the straight-ahead dead-pan and clever mime of Thomas Derrah and the pestering complaints of Richard Grusin, both of whom have a turn in the title role...
...CAMERAS pan over post-revolution Managua, a folk singer laments the old days when, roughly translated, his country was "a feudal estate encumbered by the owners with a mortgage." Teaching people three, four and five times his age to write and read, an 11-year-old boy--one of 120,000 brigadistas in the nation's literacy campaign--recites to his pupils lessons like: "The Sandinista Front guards against Yankee imperialism." Along the highways, there are those insipid billboards--the smiling workers with strong shoulders and full faces, who sell only happiness and, by inference, obedience. The crudity...
First suggested by Crown Prince Fahd last August, the proposal reiterates Arab demands for a Palestinian state but implies Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist (see box). The Gulf States' endorsement could be the first step toward transforming the Fahd proposal into a pan-Arab peace plan, provided the Saudis can win approval for it at the 23-nation Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. If the league, which includes the Palestine Liberation Organization, endorses the Fahd plan, the step would be the most important in Arab summitry since the Rabat meeting...