Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pet peeves...
There are some things you just can't get in the Square. The nearest Big Mac is at least a T-stop away; there are no pet stores supplying hamster exercise wheels; coloring books are simply not to be found...
...cartoonish drawings and whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...plant mister when itscratches, "and if that doesn't work, you can tieinflated balloons around the base of the couch;the pop will scare your kitty out of its badhabits." At the IAMS counter you can buy not justbrushes and toys but also tuna-flavored vitamins,cat shampoo, and pet cologne...
Nancy Sullivan of Swampscott, Mass., breedsHimalayans professionally. She has shipped hercats to Italy, Japan, England, and she oncereceived an all-expenses paid trip to escort a catto Vienna. A "pet quality cat," one good enough tokeep around the house but not much else, goes forfive hundred dollars. A "show quality cat," whichhas a shot at champion status, can easily bring5,000. And a "breeding quality cat" fetches evenmore...