Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed at the Driskill Hotel [March 18] many times and never been frightened by a mouse in my room as was Bill Moyers-it was a mouse, of course, not a rat. A little old Texas mouse is bigger than a Washington mouse, naturally, but a friendly critter, like the Driskill management and all the rest of Austin...
Harper. As a gum-chewing gumshoe named Harper, Paul Newman stirs awake, forces open his burnt-out baby-blue eyes, and begins to assess the odds against his peace of mind. His Los Angeles office is a rat's nest where the private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
Next day it was all fixed. Kauffmann played first-nightsville along with his colleagues. The premiere came off and so did Kauffmann's hour review (a murky pan). And when Merrick was pressed about the electrical troubles of the night before, he said, straight-faced: "A rat got in the generator." Positively, Mr. Merrick? Absolutely...
...criticizing Communism without restraint. The villain is an ambitious young member who brings false charges of "deceiving the Party" against a public-spirited young Communist. The charges stick, the hero is expelled from the party, the villain moves on to bigger and better betrayals-and nobody smells a rat in the apparat...