Word: ratting
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...quickly, a couple of minor reforms: tell players to get rid of the moldy "gym rat" fad of wearing T shirts under their uniform shirts. This is intended to signify dedication, because if you keep practicing three pointers long after the heat has been turned off, you need a T shirt. But the pros don't dress this way, do they? Also lose the dreary possession arrow and reinstate the jump after a held ball. Little squirts love to try to outjump the big droids, and audiences love to see them do it. Right. And, coach, you up there...
...like the freedom of such a life. John Andrews, 42, a Los Angeles antitrust attorney, remembers working seven weeks without a day off as a young lawyer. He prefers temping at law firms. Says he: "There's no security anymore. Partnerships fold up overnight. Besides, I never had a rat- race mentality, and being a lawyer is the ultimate rat-race job. I like to travel. My car is paid for. I don't own a house. I'm not into mowing grass...
...taco Western." We'd call it a rough, funny Mad Mex. Now all Hollywood is calling Rodriguez because Columbia Pictures is distributing his movie. Not bad for a 24-year-old who raised nearly half the film's budget (okay, $3,000) by serving as a "lab rat" in a medical-research project in his hometown of Austin, Texas...
...RAT: Long-tailed brother...
...last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics to his '50s chugger Reelin' and Rockin': "I set my watch and it was quarter to eight,/ You know, Bill's gonna get this country straight." Rapper...