Word: tomcats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...check out the author who's been hailed as "the best American writer of his generation." Tim O'Brien, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (among other honors), reads from his latest work, Tomcat in Love. 6 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square. 536-5400, ext. 336. FREE...
...wasn't too long before the inadequacies of my amateurish style became evident. Given a very large bucket, I might have been able to carry a tune, but usually my singing sounded more like the call of a tomcat on the prowl. My guitar playing was similarly sub-standard, though most wouldn't be able to tell through the jangling of six crudely-tuned strings. And, finally, my harmonica playing--which I'd been toying with for a longer time--was more than enough to set the dog howling in pain and my little brother storming to my room...
...which no one besides felons and welfare mothers is held responsible for his or her actions, compulsive womanizing has inevitably been redefined as sexaholism: the old kind of touchy feely meeting the new kind of touchy feely, which certainly sounds like President Clinton. One imagines that his tomcat aura may even have helped him in those precincts of the electorate that had come to see the Democrats as the no-fun, take-your-medicine, be-nice-to-everyone party--i.e., the girly-man party--after the Carter, Mondale and Dukakis debacles. Of all Clinton's straddles, maybe this...
Bogart, an old orange tomcat that lived in the building, died...
Leaning on my right leg to brace against the 40 mile-per-hour winds, I watched as the crew on the deck connected the F-14 "Tomcat" to the catapult. The blast shield behind the plane's twin engines rose and so did the noise...