Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pet Poodle. The main problems were panic and haste. General contingency plans for the emergency departure of the Americans had been drawn up months in advance, but no definite lists of Vietnamese whose lives might have been endangered by the Communists were drawn up until practically the last minute. Many officers and officials on the evacuation flagship U.S.S. Blue Ridge were openly bitter about Ambassador Graham Martin's failure to make firm, clear decisions on how the plan would actually be carried out -feelings that were hardly helped by the sight of Nitnoi, Martin's pet poodle, being...
Paradoxical? "Misha" is more than that. He is an enigma compounded of moody shyness, bold theatricality, post-adolescent intellectual pretense and a sweetness that makes him melt at the sight of an appealing house pet. But that is how it should be for the newest, brightest star in an art that is itself a series of paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic...
...proven compatible with decent rents. Yes. Controls on rent do make things worse within the investment system, by inhibiting maintenance and construction. But should we remove them? Even the current increase has forced elderly people on fixed incomes and families without employment to switch to diets of starch and pet food in order to pay their rents, or to move out of their homes-and hometown. We have to dig deeper, beneath the tug-of-war between protected profits and decent living standards if, to use Pillsbury's phrase, "the reality of the issue is to shine through...
Still, everything is done with respect for the science-fiction genre, and the best action scenes are as confoundedly enthralling as sequences in old Saturday serials. The special effects-including a peppy but menacing space pet, and the incineration of a planet and assorted phenomena among the stars-are lovingly rendered and spectacular within the modest means available. The cast is recruited mostly from the ranks of nonprofessionals, and Co-Writer O'Bannon appears in a rather hefty supporting part. He also functioned as film editor and production designer, while Producer-Director Carpenter took time out to write...
When Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, launched another of his pet projects in the fall of 1972, everything went smoothly. At least, at first...