Word: rat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke from Down Under versus the Rat from Colombia. We all know who wins. The audience rushes out of the theater, exalting the wisdom of Mick, and heads off to the nearest bar for a cold Foster's. In the purest Holly-wood tradition, the good guy walks off into the sunset with a woman at his side...
...Neill and future wife of Charlie Chaplin. In one unpublished letter, Salinger imagined a scene from the couple's domestic life: "I can see them at home evenings. Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead rat. Oona in an aquamarine gown, applauding madly from the bathroom." The banned Hamilton version: "At one point in a letter to Burnett ((Salinger)) provides a pen portrait of the Happy Hour Chez Chaplin: the comedian, ancient and unclothed, is brandishing his walking stick -- attached to the stick, and horribly resembling...
...comic book burlesqued the Disney cartoon world, with its talking animals wearing three-fingered gloves, its ducks in sailor suits but no pants, and a mouse named Minnie "with lipstick and eyelashes and a dress with high-heeled shoes; a mouse, ten times bigger than the biggest rat." This was mild stuff compared with a 1967 parody that Mad Alumnus Wallace Wood drew for Realist magazine. In the cheerfully scabrous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy," Walt's creatures behaved exactly as barnyard and woodland denizens might. Beneath dollar-sign searchlights radiating from the Magic Kingdom's castle, Goofy had his way with...
...true, Harvard went. But not before putting up a good fight on the ice and a good rat-a-tat-tat, take that in the stands...
...brown phones and three white ones are forever ringing in Atwater's room at the Radisson. Scanning the Charlotte Observer, he tells New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, "I want you to come down to Houston. Things start happening in the last ten days." After hanging up, Atwater, in his rat-a-tat South Carolina accent, explains, "We have blended the national campaign with the state campaign here...