Word: rat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike his fellow passengers on the 7:58 from Welton, Conn., Howard Carew is no middle-class striver. He commutes to a corporate job in Manhattan each day all right, but he has long since decided that the rat race is tedious, unrewarding and-most important-unnecessary to his survival. Howard does have a vocation, however. He lies for fun and profit...
...length of time, each P.O.W. was locked up in an 8-ft.-by-8-ft. cell constructed of green logs. The prisoners did not eat much worse than their captors: rice for every meal supplemented by the meat of anything that ran or crawled-snake, dog, tiger, rat, anteater. A delicacy was elephant blood soup. "Jungle meat can be real good," says Utecht. "One day I tried to cut into a ball of meat. It suddenly spread out, forming a hand. It was a monkey's hand...
...takes skill to put together an entire garment, which most of the women can do, but the "rat race" is doing the same job over and over. "You take an outsider that's never done it, they don't stop and realize what does go into making a garment...It is very interesting work and I like it. It's too bad sometimes that you feel a little inferior when you're in somebody's company. They don't stop and think. Is that all you do is work in a garment factory? Everything now is office, computers, banks. Very...
...book in which I first found fame was of great interest to me. As the presumed villain of the piece-although, I always thought, a heartily personable one-I was eager to see what Hollywood had done to my image and that of my old friends. Even a rat hears stories of the mangling of classics, and certainly Mr. E.B. White's narrative is a work of such stature...
Over the past couple of seasons Yale has stood a better chance of getting rat bite in the Arena locker room than of beating Harvard. Ironically, this year they have their best shot at downing the Crimson...