Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Realizing that many people treat their dogs and cats like children, Cynthia Grey, 34, a Hollywood entrepreneur, came up with what she considers a perfect present for the pampered pet. She packaged ordinary dog and cat biscuits in sampler boxes covered with silver foil to resemble assortments of exquisite chocolates. The names for the products: Dogiva and Cativa. Grey sent samples last spring to such departent-store chains as Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, which quickly decided that the bonbon biscuits would make excellent Christmas gifts at about $10 a box. Grey, a former Playboy bunny and wife...
...meantime, Grey is looking ahead. She will offer Valentine's Day pet treats in heart-shaped boxes adorned with red ribbons. For the spring, she plans to dye her products with pastel colors to produce Easter baskets of biscuit-eggs...
...given up trying to adapt his own novels to the screen. "It's like sitting on a suitcase," he says. " Everything has to be condensed to fit in. Time is the master of everything." What is more, he has refused to sell the movie rights for Pet Sematary, his new run away bestseller about strange doings in a country graveyard, claiming that the grisly novel is better left unfilmed. "The book hurts; the film would hurt more," he says. "I don't need the money, and I don't need that...
Jacintha Buddicom, now 82, who met and became friends with Eric Blair during his school vacations, disputes this self-portrait: "The business about how unpopular he was was a lot of nonsense, a fairy story." He fished and hunted, kept pet guinea pigs and roamed the Oxfordshire countryside. But Jacintha did not see him at St. Cyprian's. Critic Cyril Connolly, who was his classmate, would later remember that Eric "felt bitterly that he was taken on at reduced fees because he might win the school a scholarship; he saw this as a humiliation, but it was really...
...more than they reveal. Last year's programs were all "user friendly," although many proved painfully difficult to master. This year, software is "integrated," which means that information from one program can sometimes be merged with data from another. Industry watchers are now getting a preview of the pet phrase for 1984. Two leading computer software companies, Microsoft and VisiCorp, are offering products with "windows," a system that lets users run several different programs at once, each displayed in a separate section of the video screen...