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catamite Neither a light, fun sailboat, nor a small, feline bug, but a young boy used for unnatural purposes.
Thus, for example, in the former, we found NK-ir fibers in the superior colliculus, the restiform body, the pyramidal tract, and in the pontine nuclei, in which in the cat no immunoreactive fibers were found [ 15 ] . Comparing the distribution of cell bodies containing NK in both cat and human brainstems, it seems that the distribution is widespread in the feline (see [ 15 ] ). In both species NK-ir perikarya were found in the periaqueductal gray and in the inferior colliculus.
When it is played badly, however, some listeners agree that there is a feline similarity to caterwauling , from the Middle English caterwawen , an uttering of a discordant shrieking, as from a cat.
Mehta's writerly persona, a disarming mixture of the feline and the naive, is perfect for relating the little scandals that worried The New Yorker in the late '70s (plagiarism, frozen turbot), the drama of finding a worthy candidate to succeed the aging Shawn as editor, the purchase of the magazine by the evil Si Newhouse ("We all took fright") and the resultant plague of Gottliebs and Florios visited upon it, and what he sees as the final debacle: Tinaji.
Why are we suddenly treated on page 16 to an incomplete list of -ine words ( bovine, feline, lupine , etc.)?
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