Word: parakeets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow) is a mad scientist of the cybernetic age, Cuisinarting the genes of capuchin monkeys. One of these -- she's called Ella -- is placed in the care of the comely Melanie (Kate McNeil), who trains simians to function as the hands...
...bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another few weeks." Burnett's parents were both alcoholics. Their half resentful, half forgiving daughter recalls them in memorable images: her mother passed out with their pet parakeet Tweetie passed out on top of her. ( Such scenes show that to a comic mind even the darkest of childhood memories can be assuaged with laughter...
...animals are disappearing faster than they can be found and described. Naturalists have cataloged 1.6 million species, a small fraction of the estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude," says Wilson. "We don't know for sure how many species...
...victim, besides the hound, is a poor little rich girl (Barbara Babcock), who regards the pooch as the only good thing in her life. The crime is just ludicrous enough to penetrate Valnikov's self-absorption. Besides, he is a pet lover himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably one about nightingales singing in the raspberry bushes. Then he manages to rescue the dog and save Natalie from marriage to a careerist cop, who obviously does not waste time...