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...wants to be a god to his cat. Persians (and all pedigreed long hairs are so named) have minds of their own, often forget early hygiene training. Their attitude is "Why bother?" The Burmese are wise, persuasive, and can freeze a fool owner in his tracks with a contemptuous stare and a flick of the tail. Abyssinians, purported to be the sacred cats of ancient Egypt, are strong, wildly willful, almost impossible to discipline. Only insiders know how rare and expensive Abyssinians are; they are often taken for alley cats by the uninitiated, and thus are considered perfect status symbols...
...Goodbye Again--have seized upon the same general idea, and both have been far more succesful. Girl with a Suitcase moves at a snail's pace, even when there is a fist fight going on. Director Valerio Zerlini's method for showing great emotion is to have his principals stare hard at each other for minutes on end, or to focus the camera on one actor, who holds a constant expression, fighting off blinks and nervous tics, until the audience is driven to the far reaches of sanity and/or alertness. And, of course, Miss Cardinale's consummate lack of skill...
...Grumbles Winemaker Louis Martini: "There should be federal laws to prevent Gallo from calling those flavored drinks 'wine.' It's a disgrace to the whole history of wine." Another Napa Valley man adds bitterly: "Caesar fell. Mussolini fell. Gallo will fall!" Retorts Gallo, his frozen stare framed by rimless glasses: "It's all sour grapes. When all the sour grapes are swept away, there isn't an honest man in the industry who would tell unfriendly stories about...
...Boston Nutrition Society is no longer listed in the telephone directory. Stare said he first heard of the group about four years ago, when it sent five fourpage letters to Pusey. The letters to Pusey. The letters were shocking," Stare said, and one of their main contentions was that "the people in the Nutrition Department were Communists...
Presumably answering questions sent in by the general public in McCall's, Stare attacked the "open letter" from the Society that blamed white bread for making America "a nation of sick people...