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Manhattan is notorious for turning its back on its own waterfront. Not only is the island festooned with seedy, rat-infested piers; the waterfront itself is cut off by a rim of superdrives. Planners and architects have long dreamed of extending the island with marinas, heliports and apartment houses on stilts, but all plans so far have foundered in oceans of red tape, difficulties of finance, and massive indifference, from the mayor's office on down...
Poverty itself is both suffocating and ugly, and when its portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between...
Monday, November 14 RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Enemies become allies when Germans join with Rat Patrol Raiders to stave off an Arab attack...
...Rat Patrol...
...good nut (Bayliss again). As his wife and helper, Patricia Routledge hops around like a kangaroo whose pouch has just been rifled. Her name is Rover, and she has an imaginary dog named Maureen. "I hate the whole beastly business," says More. "The competition, the rat race." Replies Bayliss, in a tone typical of the play: "You mustn't hate the rat race. The human race, yes-but not animals...