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...same adults who had served as models in the earlier experiment portraying the novel aggressive acts toward the inflated doll. Children in the cartoon-aggression group saw a film projected on a glass lenscreen in a television console. In this film a female model was costumed as a cat and exhibited aggressive behavior toward a plastic doll...
...CAT'S PAJAMAS and WITCH'S MILK, by Peter De Vries. In these two grotesquely humorous novellas, a gifted, discontented man works hard at being a failure, and a gentle, down-at-heart woman struggles with domestic disaster...
Aesop offers perhaps the best comment-and the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert. Once, he relates, a group of mice held a council to determine what they should do about a voracious cat. Finally one young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around...
...splint, but the third, who dangles apelike from a pole, has an amiable if freakish mien. A woman lounging in a deck chair turns a face wreathed in a hideous grimace-yet, on second glance, it is obviously nothing more than the grin of a well-fed Cheshire cat...
...Hall he imparts a sense of total grandeur to the symphony, singling out groups of instruments without losing the greater visual scheme of their physical and musical relationship to the rest of the orchestra. This makes him ideal for that potentially pedestrian assignment, as well as for The Black Cat where Poelzig's house becomes an incredibly grand stage for the anguish displayed...