Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After several clues pointed to the presence of an unwanted pet in Weld North 28, James H. Colopy '90 laid a trap Friday afternoon in the common room radiator. He checked the trap on Sunday and noticed something had fallen for his bait...
...images of people standing in front of the statue. The faces on the cards will be cut-out, so visitors can paste into the holes the photograph of their choice--their own mug, or that of a well-known political figure, or Dom Deluise, or even a beloved household pet...
...bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another few weeks." Burnett's parents were both alcoholics. Their half resentful, half forgiving daughter recalls them in memorable images: her mother passed out with their pet parakeet Tweetie passed out on top of her. ( Such scenes show that to a comic mind even the darkest of childhood memories can be assuaged with laughter...
...computer-age jargon and ancient religious practice, which often invested stones with powerful magic. Some other curious elements of the New Age faith include reincarnation, channeling (communing with souls in their afterlife) and psychic predictions. For not-so-New Agers, these prayer rocks are a way to update their Pet Rocks. To the skeptical, the burgeoning fad may give new meaning to the word stoned...
...Williams introduces Bidemmi, a gifted young black girl who draws a world of apartments and subway stops and ghetto / streets. With her felt-tip pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough, says the last rainbow illustration, to feed everyone...