Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their ideas and egos, Louise becomes (as she tells Jack) "a boring, clinging, miserable little wife. Who'd ever want to come home to me?" Jack does. Rogue male and loving husband, he forgives her tantrums, ignores her affair with O'Neill, sees through her to the spine of pride and loyalty. And Louise learns that her destiny is to be Jack's partner in the curious dance life has choreographed for them-to be his exciting, independent, essential wife...
...kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; instinctively cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are so arranged as to sever a rodent's spine with surgical precision...
...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 the spine, Swedish kneading relaxes the muscles, and Oriental rubbing drains the cat's sinus passages. Mocha stretches in ecstasy. Cats need such relaxation. Even subtle shifts in their owners' life-styles can send kitties into tailspins. When Philadelphia Writer Marc Kaufman, 32, and his wife Lynn Litterine, 35, brought home their...
...with Burton, before they both went on to other marriages. Meantime, Fisher, now 54, has never managed to rekindle his career to the glow of the '50s, and his autobiography (Harper & Row; $14.95) is poignant in its chronicle of his rise and fall. Burton, 56, plagued by a spine ailment, also seems at a standstill; the same could be said of Ferris' plodding biography (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $13.95). But Taylor, 49, a U.S. Senator's wife who overwhelmed Broadway and is breaking house records in Los Angeles with The Little Foxes, seems capable of keeping the tongues...
...conference confirmed his decision: he will put off all consideration of tax boosts until January. Meanwhile, he will press for a further cut of 12%, or $13 billion, in fiscal 1982 spending on top of the $35 billion reduction already passed. Said the President: "This Government must stiffen its spine and not throw in the towel on our fight to get federal spending under control...