Word: ratting
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...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
Calling the Pentagon a "rat-hole in Virginia," the ex-Marine added, "America needs to reject its historic role as police officer of the world, gun-runner of the world, counter-insurgency expert of the world...
...IDEAS--they can't really be called themes--that accumulates a certain weight of detail in the novel is superstition. Jennifer makes several references to finding coins and four-leaf clovers. She sees a rat in a restaurant and wonders whether it could be the same one she saw uptown a few weeks earlier. She always gives money to beggars, not as "a bribe to my own fortunes any longer. Even lighting candles in a church I have never prayed quite in specifics. It is just a habit now." She clings to her habits, though: they may be silly...
...Lookin' Over From Your Side," for example, a Harlem-dweller suggests that if whites lived in a rat-infested slum, they too might be moved to riot. "Time Brings About Change" and "They Keep Comin'," on the other hand, are both paens to black progress, one bitter and funny, the other proudly insistent. In the former, one soloist pokes fun at the discomfort busing is causing whites. "Once we walked nine miles to school, while they took the bus," he sings. "Now they want to talk to school, and leave the driving...
Predictably and pathetically, however, these crusades often took the form of silly flirtations with hippie dress, hallucinogens and other symbols of the counter-culture, and ended in the embarassing spectacle of a middle-aged refugee from the corporate rat-race (his hair probably thinning out so rapidly that a flower wouldn't even stick in it) bending some earth-mother's ear with ironic memories of his deserted wife and how she just did not understand...