Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear some irate Angelenos tell it, coyotes have not only invaded the city's ever spreading residential areas but are also wreaking vengeance on encroaching civilization by decimating the pet population. Local wildlife authorities receive a dozen complaints a week about coyotes making off with dogs or cats. One Brentwood Hills matron lost three cats in 18 months; a Briarcliff public relations man reports losing a treasured Persian cat when a coyote "trotted right up to our front lawn and casually carried it off." Says Charles Rosenberg, a stockbroker in suburban Sherman Oaks: "At 10:30 at night...
...theorize, because decades of hunting and trapping by man have weeded out the less clever and wary of them. Concedes Robert Rush, chief of the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department: "The coyotes have a lot of smarts. They can get water out of a pool in Brentwood while the pet dog is sleeping inside...
...only woman in the chamber, Mrs. Crimmins (Laura Esterman), is ardently sponsoring a bill to have contraceptives openly displayed and clearly priced. The men regard this proposal as scandalous, although their own pet projects are as bad or worse. One member fulminates that if God had wanted a permissive society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with...
...time of the robbery, Inspector Jacques Clouseau was standing outside the bank, arguing with a beggar. The poor fellow was trying to earn a few centimes playing the accordion, while his pet monkey collected coins in a tin cup. Now you will recall from The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark that Clouseau has an immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple...
...meetings, Elizalde and Nance flew into the secret valley of the Tasaday. High on a cliff, in a cave about 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, small groups sat talking by several fires. Children climbed a smooth rock and laughed as they slid down. One boy flew a pet butterfly on a string, like a kite. The floor of the cavern was regularly swept with branches, but no improvements had been made...