Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kaleidoscopic display of bangles and bosoms, they articulate 300 legs in unison, like a spangled centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying Down to Rio to The Barkleys of Broadway. The routine never varies: Astaire's pumps beating an impassioned rat-a-tattoo on the shiny floor, Rogers' footwork echoing a moment later in a flippant filigree. It is the era when dancing still means moving together...
...standard war flicks cast a Steve Canyon type as the hero of "Rat Patrol," "Combat," and the like. One's immediate response to "The Last War" is that TV has finally told the truth, that someone has finally thrown away the conventional rules about what should and shouldn't be discussed. The plot is somewhat formulaic, and Winter is something of a stereotype--the sensitive youth who grew up on a color-conscious world that killed his mother and kicked him around. But they are not the cliches one expects to find...
...rebellious, superstitious, troublesome and riddled with diseases. Traveling by Land Rover, the big-boned, blue-eyed doctor sat around the fire in 200-odd Montagnard villages, becoming fluent in their principal dialect, sipping their raw rice wine and occasionally, as a good guest should, eating a native delicacy-rat...
Manhattan is notorious for turning its back on its own waterfront. Not only is the island festooned with seedy, rat-infested piers; the waterfront itself is cut off by a rim of superdrives. Planners and architects have long dreamed of extending the island with marinas, heliports and apartment houses on stilts, but all plans so far have foundered in oceans of red tape, difficulties of finance, and massive indifference, from the mayor's office on down...
Poverty itself is both suffocating and ugly, and when its portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between...