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...estimated 4.8 billion rat population, which outnumbers humans by a ratio of 8 to 1. Those are unfair odds. India's rats are believed to eat or destroy almost half the grain consumed in India-100 million tons; moreover, the rats are disease carriers, profligate breeders and just plain pests...
...baroque high altars gave way to simple tables; members of what had once jokingly been called "the church of silence" were urged to sing hymns - and often Protestant ones at that (a familiar favorite these days: Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). Instead of incense and plain chant, parish churches now offered folk Masses, Masses with "sacred dancing," mixed-media Masses. Comedian Bob Newhart, a practicing Catholic usually comfortable with change, ruefully recalls the "wakko wakko wakko " sound of a Moog Mass he once attended. "The priest said, 'Now let us all join together...
...role of aggressor or not, seem to touch more readily. The boss can wrap a paternal arm around a female's shoulder without seeming too forward. If she returned the gesture, the scene would become an embarrassment or a joke; only by this reversal would its essential presumptuousness or plain silliness come out. A woman who acts this way might be tagged a flirt--a demeaning way of putting her on guard...
...Leonard (West Side Story) Bernstein, Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, a Bicentennial theme and almost $1 million in backing from the Coca-Cola Co. Alas, a pre-Broadway tour met with disastrous reviews. Despite considerable reworking, when the show opened last week in New York City it was plain that Coke had bought fizzle, not fizz. Observed TIME Theater Critic Ted Kalem: "The British burned the White House in 1812, and Lerner and Bernstein are running the fire sale." After seven performances, Producer Roger Stevens shuttered 1600. Not even Leading Man Ken Howard, who was praised for his portrayal...
...Tatum O'Neal, on the other hand, is not aging gracefully. She is only one of many things wrong with this movie. The story's message manages to be simultaneously heavyhanded and incomprehensible, no mean trick; winning is better than losing, but winning with dignity is better than just plain winning. Oh, and losing with dignity should be in there too, but it's unclear exactly where. The little kids are pretty cute, but Tatum has evolved into the Margaux Hemingway of the pre-teen set, which, as far as we're concerned, is nowheresville...