Word: snakes
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Rubik also has come out with Son of Cube, a three-dimensional twister called the Magic Snake, which can assume the shape of a swan, saxophone or steamroller. F.A.O. Schwarz, New York City's premier toy store, sold out its initial shipment of 864 Snakes in a week. Copy-cubers have devised multicolored variations of Rubik's baffler in the shape of pyramids, octagons and cylinders. A new puzzle marketed in France called the Tower of Babel has sold 600,000 copies in three months at a price of about...
Feline psyches are a more complex and an even more crucial matter. For the disturbed cat, there are a variety of animal practitioners. Dr. Michael Fox, 44, a psychologist based in Washington, D.C., advocates massage-both Oriental and Swedish. "I know it sounds like snake oil at first," says the mustachioed Ph.D., who has a California masseur's license, "but it will give energy to old and sick animals and stimulate healthy cats." In his home near by, Fox, who is director of the Humane Society of the U.S., demonstrates on his Burmese, Mocha. A chiropractic tail pull straightens...
...stalking horse, perhaps-the animal that allowed a hunter to hide beneath its belly until he could get close to his quarry. But it would be more than Mr. Stockman intended to suggest that the tax bill was an accomplice to those seeking to devour the people. A snake in the grass, then? No, because a snake would be immediately recognizable as an enemy. Nor could the tax package be described as a fox in a henhouse, a dog in the manger, a bull in a china shop, or a bomb in a bull (though it has been called abominable...
POLITICAL ILLUSIONS--the blue smoke and mirrors that have accompanied Reaganomics, for instance--are maintained only by hope. It's the same sort of hope that benefits salesmen of snake oil and patent medicine; people ache so badly for relief that they suspend cynicism and mistrust...
...Garter snakes communicate primarily by way of pheromones, Crews said. The newly discovered pheromone conveys information about the female snake's reproductive potential...