Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Councilor Daniel Clinton, a newly elected Independent, let the cat out of the bag before the official start of last week's city council meeting: senior councilor Alfred E. Vellucci had successfully lobbied enough votes to be elected mayor. Clinton signalled the end to the mayoral stalemate by saying that the council could look forward to an ample supply of Italian delicacies during the next year. He's probably right, because Vellucci is admired not only for his political finesse, but also for his special Italian recipes...
These puzzles ultimately resolve themselves into a morality play, with principle pitted against expediency. This deep struggle is just as engaging as the cat-and-mouse game between Milson and Ludley. Readers may choose to ignore the metaphysics and allow suspense alone to drive them forward through the book. The Villa Golitsyn can be read once for fun and a second time for enlightenment. Read's seven earlier novels received critical praise but not the commercial popularity of Alive (1974), his nonfiction account of a plane crash in the Andes and the ordeal of its survivors. This book...
...Snubbed Cat...
...writing in response to your cover story on cats [Dec. 7]. Nowhere was reference made to the most famous, fabulous feline cartoon character, Heathcliff. A cat as distinguished as he is deserves at least a mention. For Heathcliff lovers, I hope some recognition will be given to this very popular hero...
...Future King. Everything took on an enchanted significance for her-dragonflies, mushrooms, four-leaf clovers, bits of broken pottery. Like White, she could not walk out her back door without seeing druids and pucks and Camelot. The only child of a schoolmaster-"solitary and agnostic as a little cat"-she was a wild romantic beneath the maiden-aunt exterior that she proffered...