Word: rat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write a rock column, and the closest you come is maybe kidney stones. But I'll tell you what; get yourself a leather jacket, take off that stupid hair thing, and find a drummer and a bass player. We'll try to book you a 'gig' at the Rat or something...
...lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...
Anyway, my beat this winter entails covering the varsity hockey team. I share the chore with Bill Scheft--yes he really is insane. I was given the job because I know a bit about the game. I have been a rink rat since I was six. I was captain of the Deerfield Academy squad in 1975. I was not much of a star, and had plenty of trouble putting the puck in the net from my center ice position. But nonetheless I had my day, so to speak...
...Garth revels in his labors and savors his influence both during and after campaigns, just as he enjoys his own façade as the rat-tat-tat tough guy, breaking off aphorisms between puffs on his twisted black cigar. (Typical mot: "Reality dictates your strategy. There are no brilliant choices in most situations.") At 47, he conveys an impression of boundless energy in search of new elections, new impact. Indeed, what distinguishes Garth from other political consultants is his influence on some clients after they have won and his immersion in their campaigns. He plots the candidates' advertising...
...important step in this direction had already been taken last spring when scientists at the University of California in San Francisco succeeded in transplanting a rat insulin gene into the DNA of a laboratory strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug then multiplied into countless duplicate bacteria, each containing the insulin gene, but incapable of producing insulin. In the work announced last week, Microbiologist Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, along with Biochemist Arthur Riggs of the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles and Physiologist Wylie Vale of the Salk Institute in San Diego...