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Word: ratting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poem's explicit sexuality is unusual, the grotesque forms of the goblins certainly are not. They are a cross between animals and human beings; some have tails, others snouts, one is mostly rat. The difference between people and wild creature is typically unclear in fantasy. Lewis Carroll, for example, had no qualms about letting pigs sneeze, cats grin or caterpillars counsel...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Silent Moving Ones | 5/21/1974 | See Source »

...Brother Rat (1938). Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman and the governor of California star in a comedy-drama about life at West Point. Ch. 27, 7 p.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...Luce tells us in elegant prose that Nixon is "one helluva gutsy fighter." So is a cornered rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1974 | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...four or five crazy guys" who arranged this record are wags, activists, and any picky Harvard lame-brain who's worth his salt will go batty hunting puns. More than any other Firesign Theatre album, the Rat bristles like a hedgehog with mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and plays on words. Its running gag on cocaine is especially amusing. In short, The Giant Rat is diverting, if facile...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Rats | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Rats | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

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