Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin with a slow, throaty, lyrical blues, punctuate the piece with jagged staccato yelps of outrage, and then tap the stops with his fingers like a woodpecker beating out a rat...
Harry the Rat with Women, by Jules Feiffer. Seeking love and finding oneself is a contradiction in terms, says Cartoonist Feiffer, so his mirror-magnetized hero is ruined by the love of a good woman...
Working in Konikoffs laboratory, L. W. Reynolds implants corrosion-resistant electrodes in his rats, one of them just under the belly skin, the other in the abdominal cavity. Thin insulated wires lead out of the skin, and through them flows a current strong enough (155 microwatts) to run a miniature 500-kilocycle transmitter. The transmitter used at present is too big to put completely inside a rat, but the engineers believe that if it were reduced in size and tucked under the rat's skin, its body-powered signal would be easily heard several hundred yards away. The electrodes...
...star. Compact (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.) and muscular, McKinley plays tennis with an astounding lack of grace. He leaps, he lunges, he scrambles, he slides, he falls, he dives, he skins his elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands during a 1960 Davis...
Harry, the Rat with Women, by Jules Feiffer. From satiric cartoons, Feiffer not so lightly turns to fable writing-and the tragicomic career of a body-by-Fisher king of love and narcissism...