Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to collect the enlistment money). It is a confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels for the knowledge of what is called triumph, the lice were precious...
...hairdos were a little moplike, and here and there a trace of baby fat still lingered. But the 52 young ladies who met in Dallas for a crack at the Miss Teenage America title were long on animal spirits. Miss Teenage Tampa appropriately won the turtle race with her pet "Knight," while dozens of girls danced the monkey and the bird. Miss Teenage Memphis disapproved, saying: "I feel I cannot live for God and participate in the vulgarity of some of the modern dances." When the feathers settled, the winner was a gleeful soprano, Carolyn Mignini, 17. a Baltimore oriole...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...
...this emotion is the reason that I am troubled by Robert Kennedy's ill-advised use of his brother's name in this campaign. The Kennedy name, representative of the finest qualities to be found in this country, should not be dragged all over New York state like a pet seal, brought out to perform at will...
...tank filled with swimming goldfish looked like any other pet-shop aquarium, but the hamster hopping about inside the tank raised more than a few eyebrows. Sealed in an air-filled chamber, the hamster was staying nicely alive in his underwater environment without the help of lines or pipes leading to the air above the surface...