Word: parakeets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband, Jerry, are capitalizing on Manhattan's current parakeet boom. They claim that parakeets are outselling canaries at a rate of 9 to 1. The reason? Many urban apartment buildings now bar cats, dogs and children, so parakeets are fulfilling "the pent-up need for pets." Explains Lu: "Parakeets can be taught to talk. They can be taken out of a cage and handled. There's a sensual thing involved. A parakeet offers one of the few rewarding relationships that are left...
...Parakeet reactions to TV are fairly complicated. Lu Van Wiseman says that most of them go "nearly crazy with excitement" at the sight of their own kind on the TV screen. Certain music appeals to them ("They just love the Hopalong Cassidy theme song"). And some parakeets act like some people: they just stare at TV in a pained silence...
...with whatever happens to be on the children's minds. They argue over the possibilities of getting a pony or about when, if ever, God sleeps. Sometimes they tackle such moral problems as the one that developed when Pamela let the dog indoors and it ate the family parakeet. There was agonized discussion about whether Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory to the family by putting a transcribed...
...Levandowski's heart held up. She is now convalescing cheerfully in her little house, surrounded by sons, daughters, grandchildren, dogs, a canary, a parakeet. She still weighs close to 300 Ibs., but much of it is loosely flapping abdominal tissue that once enclosed the cyst. She looks forward to her next operation some time in May, when all this will be removed. "Then," she says with a twinkle, "I'll be streamlined...
...Favor. Houdek settled listlessly into parakeet row at U.N. He spoke only what Moscow told him to say, voted the way Moscow told him to vote, stomped out of council chambers when Moscow's delegates stomped out. It was not a demanding life, it paid well ($12,000 a year, tax free) and it put Houdek into position to enjoy the bourgeois pleasures of Long Island...