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...owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week. He ran an ad in the Florida State University newspaper: GOT ROACHES? GET GECKO. St. Petersburg's Fins and Friends pet store had 75 requests for the lizards in four days. Says Gecko Owner Sybil Jaggears of Tallahassee: "It's a matter of whether you want one gecko or a hundred roaches. Everybody thinks I'm a little nuts...
...Resurrection is a sympathetic but irreconcilable olio of extremes. The film swerves between irony and sentimentality, human drama and melodrama, powerful acting and shameless hammery-sometimes in the same sequence or shot. Screenwriter Carlino and Director Petrie have previously worked in the genres of sci-fi schizophrenia (Seconds and Sybil) and domestic conflict (The Great Santini and Eleanor and Franklin). Here, they have tried to blend the two forms, but the film does not always gel. The problem may stem from a lack of faith in its "small," challenging story. When in doubt, Carlino inserts a violent climax, or Petrie...
...through with it," she says, adding her suspicion that the boycott announcements were made in hopes of getting an exemption for the two tests. Cuts in service are likely. "I have heard a lot of talk about it from many of the boards, College Entrance Examination Board employee Sybil Stokes says...
...obviously not the bronchitis with which Billy Carter, 41, had been hospitalized that led his presidential elder brother to diagnose Billy at a recent press conference as "seriously ill." Last week the younger Carter, accompanied by Wife Sybil, checked out of an Americus, Ga., hospital and flew to California to dry out at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Service of the Long Beach I Naval Regional Medical Center. Carter, who has admitted guzzling two dozen beers a day, will undergo six weeks of group therapy and psychodrama in order to learn how to deal with his drinking problem. Betty Ford and Billy...
...comedy script writers, Susan Rice and Sybil Adelman, answered the question, "Can Feminists Be Funny?" last night before about 200 people at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...