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Since I am unable to hear, I have a hearing cat. She wakes me in the morning by gently patting me with her paw. She alerts me to unusual sounds like door knocks. When given love and the chance, cats and dogs are sensitive to their owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Morris I is buried in Lombard. There is no stone to mark the spot, in sharp contrast to the fanciful choices of many other grieving pet owners around the U.S. Kitty's resting place is becoming more and more elaborate. At Paw Print Gardens in Chicago, sealable cat caskets range from $39 to $139, and granite grave markers begin at $79, while top-of-the-line custom tablet markers go for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...only a masterly writer, he is a master teacher as well. At a Breadloaf workshop, he read a scathing review of one of his own novels before criticizing the manuscripts of aspiring writers and, probing the air with his hand, which curved like a bear's paw, he exhorted writers to teach something, to make the story yield a potent statement and to fight for issues with "generous anger," out in the open, like Dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Asked whether it was important to win the game after so much time and effort, Paw Sox manager Joe Morgan lifted his eyes from his starting lineup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Jerry Falwell, who professes to be committed to U.S. pluralism, thinks the PAW crusade is mere partisanship. "Norman Lear sees a future threat to what he is doing, to the pornographic television he produces like Mary Hartman and Maude. He used Archie Bunker and Edith for years to demean women, got rich doing it, then gave a big donation to the women's movement. He's just playing games again, and using some liberal theologians for his own devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Smiting the Mighty Right | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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