Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some time in the future, when there is a different President-never under Nixon-I might go back for a visit. If I can go back, why not? But I plan to make my home in Canada...
...Paul Newman adapted from Paul Zindel's play, takes a typically fifties subject--a middle-aged widow trapped in a ghetto of emotional frustration--and dresses it up in typically fifties sentiment. The movie is a plea for the Blanche du Bois and Amandas of the world, victims of rat-racing commercial America. The American Theater has wallowed under a deluge of such stuff for 20 years; the dialogue sounds like a rerun William Inge or Tennessee Williams, and the movie watches like a Blue Monday...
...paying, deadening jobs for the people of the center cities. (Unemployment was lower in 1968 than in 1963, because of higher war-related employment--a solution to the problem which was neither attractive nor permanent.) In the Johnson years Dick Gregory remarked on the government's failure to institute rat control: "They claim they can't kill the rats. This from the people who killed the buffalo?" I agree with the Crimson, Nixon is even worse than Johnson. But Ivan the Terrible was undoubtedly worse than Nixon. Shall we rejoice for every politician who is lesser than some other evil...
...fatherly missive, handed out to every girl arrested for plying her trade in Midtown North, is the latest tactic in the current and-like those in the past-unsuccessful drive to clear New York streets of prostitutes. Writes Peterson: "If you want to get out of this rat race, we can help you. Think of it the next time your pimp punches you around or leaves you with only a few bucks to live on." To get help, the prostitute need only call one of two special telephone numbers. The police promise to keep all calls confidential. Some 500 notes...
...Tues. The Innocents. 4, 7:15, 10:30. Villege of the Demand. 5:45, 9:05. Midnight Fri. Sat.. Onibaba plus Captain Video part 13, Thru Sat.. Kind Hearts and Coronets plus Laurel and Hardy film, 4. 7:30, 9:45, Sun.-Tues., King Rat...