Word: petted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a remarkable scene near the beginning of Small Change. A little boy, three at the oldest, shoves a pet cat out on the ledge of his ninth-floor apartment, then watches it fall until it lands, safe but a little confused, on the balcony below. Then the boy, dressed for play in red overalls, climbs out on the ledge himself, laughing, having a wonderful time. He dangles his legs over the side, onto a railing, then lets go, sliding off into the air and down nine stories to the ground...
...director ("'manager' sounds too offensive") tells me the real story behind the pickhandle legend. "The Governor used to own a place called the Pickrick Restaurant and the handles were sold as souvenirs--4000 in two days one time--like those rocks they sell." I begin comparing the little innocuous pet rocks I know with the famed pickhandles and what I had heard about them when Young interrupted my thoughts to remind me once again that there was nothing symbolic about the pickhandle. "He never actually wielded a pickhandle, now did he?" Young asks. "You ever seen a picture of that...
Died. Charles P. Gorry, 64, Associated Press photographer who covered every U.S. President from Franklin Roosevelt to Gerald Ford; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Gorry's 1964 picture of Lyndon Johnson lifting his pet beagle by the ears drew howls of protest from dog lovers and a week's banishment of Gorry from the White House...
Nader's revisionist critics claim that his emotional commitment occasionally overwhelms his acute powers of reasoning. In an unusually vivid public display of bad manners, Nader a month ago fortified that claim. Apparently frustrated by resistance to his pet auto safety device, the inflatable air bag, Nader laced into Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. during hearings on the subject. The issue "is whether William T. Coleman has the guts to stand up to General Motors and the Ford Motor Company as he had the guts to stand up on civil rights years ago," Nader said bitingly...
...each, the necklaces are no giveaway. Still, Bonwit Teller, Jordan Marsh and Filene's of Boston, among other stores, have placed orders, suggesting that the eggplant-size paper rocks will be at least as much of a hit on the party circuit this fall as, say, pet rocks were last year. In fact, orders are pouring in so fast that the ersatz emeralds, diamonds and rubies are now in their second printing...