Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dead Zone (1979) placed King on the best-seller list for more than six months, replaced by Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), a nonfiction investigation of horror called Danse Macabre (1981), and a collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare time he turned out Christine and Pet Sematary (both 1983) by himself, and The Talisman (1984) in collaboration with Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story. Another collection of short stories appeared in 1985. And still that did not exhaust King. Because publishers were wary of overkill, he submitted five other novels under another name. When Richard Bachman's cover...
...Tanner family of NBC's new sitcom ALF has an unusual pet -- an E.T.-like visitor from outer space -- but in most other respects the Tanners are the very picture of TV normality. When Dad comes home from work and gets fawned over by his teenage daughter, he instantly guesses, as TV fathers have done for decades, that she wants to borrow the car. And as they have also done for decades, he puts his foot down: no driving on a school night. "If we don't respect the rules we make, we're never going to respect each other...
Oleinik recalled the Khrushchev years when officials made overambitious agricultural targets, especially in growing corn, a pet project of Khrushchev, and then ignored the fact that targets were...
...Bell concurs, more or less. "Befriending Simon Geller," he says, "is like befriending an extremely tough, seemingly tired, apparently less than healthy watchdog. Some days he'd let you pet him, and some days he'd bite. And he is so very tenacious...
Other Presidents have had their Falas and King Timahoes. But since well before their 688-acre ranch became the Western White House, the pet-loving Reagans have been opening their gates and arms to just about anything that barks, meows, whinnies or quacks. The most recent additions to the First Couple's ranch menagerie are three kittens that Caretakers Courtney Trisler and Barney Barnett found wandering outside a Santa Barbara, Calif., supermarket last month. Confident that the Reagans would be happy to shelter the unfortunate felines, Trisler and Barnett toted them up the mountain. Nancy welcomed the cats and, after...