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...girl's plight triggers a screechy, preachy political cat fight between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...
...have decided that somebody besides the young should support Social Security. No one guarantees that my income will keep up with inflation. I am taxed so much now that I am not able to save for my retirement. It is my generation that just might be reduced to eating cat food...
...avoid the social explosion that might loom as living standards drop further. De la Madrid's aim is to show that belt-tightening will affect the rich as well as the poor. "What's fair is fair," explains a P.R.I, 'politician. "We cannot have fat-cat officials taking advantage of these conditions to feather their own nests." De la Madrid has also made clear that he will do as much as possible to protect government programs that aid the peasantry, the poorest element of Mexican society...
...physicians' greatest fear was that Clark had suffered a stroke. To check, they ordered sophisticated X-ray images of the brain and heart, using a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner. In Clark's case, this proved to be a major undertaking. The scanner is on the first floor, and Clark is tethered by two 6-ft. tubes to 375 Ibs. of equipment that powers his heart and is in turn plugged into outlets for electricity and compressed air. Clark had to be switched to an auxiliary battery and air-supply system that allows temporary mobility. Then...
...China, 1982 will be remembered as the year of the dog and in the U.S. as the epoch of the cat. Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (Little, Brown; $12.95) may seem a late entry. In fact, the English satirist has been cartooning cats for decades, mocking their uncivilized sophistication, their hypocrisy and cunning. While some of his furry vamps are overarch (Lady Catterley, Catahari), the vast majority of his scenes and creatures are instances of energy and wit. After examining the ferocious splashes of color in "Rat Race" or the haunting perspectives of "Displaced Persons," cat owners...