Word: rat
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...wasn't the lead in last year's top-grossing film, The Dark Knight, either. That's Pixar for you. Unlike its rival, DreamWorks, the studio doesn't sell its movies with star voices. And the films' plots? At a typical Hollywood pitch meeting, the story of a rat let loose in a French restaurant (Ratatouille, 2007) or a lonely robot trash collector (last year's WALL-E) or, this time, a cranky old guy who won't leave his house would be greeted by stony silence. Even the crickets would walk out. Somehow, though, people know that a Pixar...
...Rat-a-tat, Gates continued on, in that flat, unassuming Kansas twang that screams: No bull here. The next day, testifying on the Senate side, Gates performed a similar anti-missile evisceration of Senator Jeff Sessions, who responded, "I'd say you were ready for that question." (Read about the troubled SBX radar...
...course your kids were delighted. They were so horrified, they couldn't believe it. You would have thought I put rat entrails in their bathroom cabinet...
...Medero could not be reached at his home last night for comment, and Stephen G. Catalano, a spokesman for HUPD, declined to comment beyond the University’s statement. ‘FOOLISHNESS OR HYSTERIA’? Recent media coverage has drawn attention to Allston’s rat infestation, which some locals say was created by the excavation for Harvard’s Science Complex. But University and Boston officials as well as other local residents maintain that the rats long precede Harvard’s construction and say that the recent reports have unfairly characterized the situation...
...Jake has too much on his plate to spend a lot of time worrying about insults. Instead, he passes me a flier that offers information to residents of Allston-Brighton on dealing with the escalating rat population. “There used to be bunny rabbits in our neighborhood,” Jake remembered wistfully. Now there are rats that rummage through the trash and spread disease...