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...need roughly $7,000 a day for? Her postnuptial monthly bills include $580 to maintain a Rolls and a Mercedes, $1,400 for groceries and an improbably precise $37,065 for furs and jewelry. Johnny was astonished, but not out of his wits. "I heard from my cat's lawyer," he cracked during one of his TV monologues last week. "My cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles." Meow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 31, 1983 | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...Richer and Thinner in Your Mid-Life Crisis by Jane Fonda and Garfield the Cat. Frankly commercial yet endearing and useful guide by America's bestselling authors. "A treat"-Kirkus Reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Some authors inescapably suggest animals: Hemingway is a lion, Tolstoy a bear, Colette a cat. Anthologist Stephen Brook is a crow. For The Oxford Book of Dreams he has ranged over four millenniums and most of the dry surfaces of the globe in search of recorded visions. The result is a nest of glittering curiosities, some of rare value, others plucked from the dustbin of history, where they belonged. Moreover, although the collection offers hundreds of entries, it also has inexcusable gaps. The dreams of Pharaoh's servants are here, interpreted by Joseph, but they represent one-half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedtime Stories | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...devilish New Jerseyites have already displayed an abundance of Black Magic. Down by four touchdowns to Bucknell the second game of the year, the Tigers roared back to a 46-28 victory. When an orange and black cat crosses your path, you're not in for good luck...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Things That Go Bump | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...staff. But he writes with his usual quirky vigor and never loses sight of the quotidian world in which mystic chords get written: glossing one of his own scores, he recalls such details of its composition as "a particular face on television, a stab of heartburn, the cat licking my toes." Those who persist through the occasional thickets of crotchets and quavers will find in this little book the middle C of Anthony Burgess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Vocation | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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