Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extinctions so selective, devastating some species while leaving others virtually unscathed? Try as they might, scientists could not devise a single elegant theory to tie the loose ends together. They were about to get what they asked for, but like the British author W.W. Jacob's infamous monkey's paw (which granted wishes --at a price), it would not be an unsullied blessing...
...salesman's natural exaggeration, no doubt-Rover, get your paw out of there-but clearly there are new face values. "It's an attitude," notes Mark Searcy, co-founder of Interface, a California concern that expects to peddle $6 million worth of men's skin-care preparations this year. "Ten years ago, it was sissy to use a blow dryer. Now policemen and truck drivers use them." The new adventurers in the skin trade see it as an obvious outgrowth of, or perhaps they would prefer to say a smooth supplement to, the health-and-fitness craze...
...second. Big Bear has made a grab for Little Bear. Now Big Bear comes on heavy with a lingering hug that bothers Little Bear, who squirms away. The kids in the audience whisper, "Hide! Hide!" But Big Bear finds Little Bear, and this time Big Bear plants a large paw on Little Bear's crotch. Big Bear threatens to spank Little Bear if Little Bear tells. But in wanders Big Moose, who advises Little Bear to tell a grownup-like a teacher-then goes off to confront Big Bear...
...three haunt another emporium, the Cat's Paw. In this posh pornography boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the dirty magazines and sexual implements are tastefully displayed. There Kelly makes her re-entry into journalism by interviewing a peep-show dancer who is addicted to fan magazines. Billy, in a Scotch-fueled search for campaign issues, settles arbitrarily on pornography. In an alcoholic blackout, he destroys mirrors and private movie booths with a chain. Amid the shambles, Jennings advises him to tell the authorities, "You did it on purpose...
...earthly time had been sharpened to that point: he could now etch the grand summation. "More light!" the great Goethe of the Enlightenment is said to have cried as he expired. There is some opinion, however, that what he actually said was "Little wife, give me your little paw...