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...moment a female mammal is conceived - whether mouse, cat or woman - she has two X chromosomes, one each from father's sperm and mother's ovum. The presence of the pair of Xs, which are reproduced in all of her body's cells, is what makes her female. But each X chromosome packs many other chemically coded instructions for the body; if both a woman's Xs remained active throughout life, she would be flooded with a double quota of some blood-clotting factors, enzymes and other vital proteins. Since she is not, something must happen...
...cannot be manipulated, wheedled, reasoned with. She's a whole different order of being, a whole different wave length, indomitable as a cat. Try to figure out what is in her head and you will go crazy. Inundate her in care and affection and she'll hop into another bed. Give up, or throw her down the stairs, and she will adore you. But not consistently...
...then racing to the theater for the show at night. The word was that Moreau was completely unphotogenic-the nose and ears too small, the mouth too thick, the body nothing special. By the time Director Louis Malle saw her in the Paris stage production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and asked her to star in his first film, Moreau had 20 forgettable films behind her. "Nine years of bad films-it was a cinematic adolescence," she says. "I never felt at ease on the screen because I was aware that I was far from...
...many nights when I sit writing in my library, nobody awake in the whole house but me and my Winky [the cat], I think I hear intruders-and I grasp my revolver, ready to shoot. I feel these things, and I will fight. I am the last of the Barons . . . the last of the Barons...
...Except for chimpanzees, animals do not catch human colds. Cats get dreadful colds, and some from rhinoviruses-"but cat rhinoviruses, not human ones." > Chilling has little if anything to do with a person's developing a cold. Presumably resistance to the virus is a factor, but how it works is not known. > Some colds are not catching at all, and no one knows how they get started. Others are most catching in the early stages (almost the only item of folklore confirmed by scientific research). They are spread by sneezing and coughing, though a handkerchief promptly and properly used...