Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time for the acid test. In no way was I going to subject readers to third-hand medicinal accounts or wailing dramaturgy from a pet addict from the local half-way therapeutic community...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV movie. The newly appointed colonial governor of a subtropical resort isle is taking the evening breeze in the manicured gardens of the governor's mansion. At his side are his handsome young aide-de-camp and his pet Great Dane. Suddenly a shadow comes to life, gunfire shatters the calm and the Governor and his aide fall dead. Even the dog lies lifeless. A state of emergency is declared, the airport is monitored and homicide experts are flown in from Scotland Yard...
...enemies-there is an ample supply-dismiss her as vulgar, venal, vindictive and untrustworthy, a puffball of bluff. Even some friends regard her with the affectionate respect that they might accord a pet barracuda. "The first time she asked me to a party," remembers Client Dyan Cannon, "she said, 'Will you wash your face before you come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries...
Other visions were apparently acquired from emotional events and trying circumstances in his life. His father was stern and autocratic. When young Ernst was only 14, his pet cockatoo died. The same day, almost to the hour, his favorite younger sister was born. Thereafter, Ernst's subconscious apparently kept mixing the images of a bird as hope, maybe with sex and therefore regeneration; of father as creator and destroyer; and of the whole world as both a dreadful and exciting place...
...Perhaps it is true, as your article "Pet Pollution" said [Jan. 29], that man subconsciously identifies with and relishes the promiscuity of his pets. I myself may have done so. Nevertheless, after having worked a year in an animal shelter putting as many as 50 "adorable" and "cuddly" kittens and puppies to death daily (humane compared with death in streams, roadways or public dumps), I realized the tragedy of such a surplus of life...