Word: purr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brainwashed. Whatever other talents he may have, Mehta is a natural, consummate performer. Back in North America, where he serves as conductor of both the Los Angeles and Montreal symphony orchestras, committee dowagers and women's magazines purr kittenishly about his "brutal charm" and "catnip gaze...
Green Bird. Most of the artists created new works for the museum, and they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
...same stripe, who go mad when they smell blood. When there is blood to smell, the tigers infest the screen with danger and excitement. When there isn't, and in every third or fourth scene there isn't, they suffer an embarrassing transformation. They begin to purr like patriotic pussycats, and their stripes turn suddenly red, white and blue...
...purr of voices husky with self-deception...
...encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts, grumbles, barks, yips, whines, hoots and roars, and com plicated sounds that the adventurous zoologist describes...