Word: rat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising that Mamet favors the individual over the collective. His view on using polls in politics: "a reversion to Mob Rule...
Master of the commanding tag line, Lois has distilled his message into four simple words: "Make Time for TIME." "The tag line addresses a real problem," says Lois. "People understand the value of TIME. But they live in a rat-race world where the challenge is finding time to read. So we're inviting people to carve out some quality time and get into this magazine." By January "Make Time for TIME" will have found its way to magazines, television, radio, newspapers, billboards and, given Lois' penchant for invention, perhaps some as-yet-undreamed-of place as well...
...lovely day. A dreadful howling sound shattered the dawn, as the earth suddenly rumbled, vibrated, heaved and pitched, wobbling in a demonic dance. "The whole street was undulating," recalled police sergeant Jesse Cook. The quake shook the city, in words that became folklore, like a "terrier shaking a rat...
...other two characters in the strip are Mort, a haggard Mickey Mouse imitation, and Tim, a ratty-looking rat. They may carry a few diseases, but they certainly don't carry the strip...
...event over and over. The plot of every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern art to the comic pages...