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...destroy the bad-guys. However, this attempt is not sparked by altruism. Instead, the catalysts are boredom and the possible opportunity for reward. With characteristic disinterest, the samurai maneuvers the factions into warfare, then sits stop a watchtower and on looks with the unconcealed glee of a tomcat observing a goldfish bowl. But his efforts are thwarted so the warrior must renew his plans...
...gossip and, yes, much, much more with the girls in the neighborhood. Limning a scene for the inevitable Walter Matthau film that should result from this book, De Vries offers a cuckolded husband bursting into the Banghart kitchen justly bent on vengeance, only to be disarmed and routed by Tomcat Al in a fluffy apron, just putting his potatoes on. "Mmyes?" says Al, delicately smoothing an eyebrow...
...Jersey City, the passing of the Democratic boss system evokes a native daughter's memories of politicians, bribes and a tomcat named Hague (see THE NATION...
Other memories: my mother refusing to tell my father whom she would vote for in the next day's election (the walls had ears, we felt). The ugly neighborhood tomcat we privately nicknamed "Mayor Hague" because he bossed all the other cats-and my mother's horror when my four-year-old brother called the cat just that in the crowded butcher's store. Politics seems even to be mixed with my memories of St. Aloysius Church: the smell of dust and sin in the confessional, of candles and innocence at Sunday Mass. Did the knowledge that...
...best-known film, The Chelsea Girls-it earned $500,000-shows its huge-eyed heroines disporting in kaleidoscopic perversity; in I, a Man, one droll scene shows a pea-jacketed lesbian sneeringly turning down the tomcat antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system...