nine lives

He is a shadowy figure known to Palestinians as The Mastermind, and to Israelis as The Cat with Nine Lives.

“Garfield: His Nine Lives” was a surprisingly unsettling 1984 book that features nine Garfield stories, most drawn by artists other than Davis.

But they do have nine lives, which is too bad.

“Lamont, this cannot go on. Even a cat has only nine lives, and we don’t have that many.”

Juror number nine lives on the Upper East Side and works as a speech therapist.