Word: possum
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...toothy smile is the same, but Singer Carly Simon definitely shows some new angles on her latest album cover. Simon, whose folksy laments and ginghamy good looks were a staple of the early '70s, has switched to a skimpy chemise and earthier songs on her new record playing possum. "It's a body album," she says. "More than previously, when my songs were more intellectual, it seemed right to display my body on the cover. The record says basic things, mostly about sex and things related to sex." Her new look, adds Simon, came about purely by accident...
...engine gurgles and fails, it is quiet again. His face is finally calm, but I squeeze mine a little so it still looks offended. A yard away, a pile of fallen leaves breaks and an animal with a naked, ringed tail rustles out. Startled, my brother watches the possum's ambling intently. The car door swings wide and he slinks around to my side. I can't help smiling at his shrewd expression as he motions for me to step out. I can't help laughing when the animal scares and he throws up his arms yelling Catch him, catch...
...even there the great reptiles reportedly are gobbling up such valuable fur-bearing animals as muskrat and nutria -not to mention possum, raccoon, frogs, fish and whatever else they can lay their jaws on. A better solution, state officials say, would be to reopen a limited hunting season on the gators. "We never agreed with the Federal Government that the alligator was an endangered species," says Joanen. "We have 1 million to 1.5 million of them here now. And the number is growing...
...presiding genius was winsome Pogo Possum, once described by his creator as "the reasonably patient, softhearted, naive, friendly little person we all think we are." Kelly himself claimed kinship with his gruff alligator; to the politicians and fat cats Kelly caricatured, the resemblance was clear. But to those who saw him away from his drawing board, joyously discussing his creatures as if they were real, Kelly displayed all the gentler traits of the possum...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy...