Word: ratting
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...built-in penchant for bad luck and controversy along with him. First there was the 1954 automobile accident in Las Vegas that cost him his left eye. Then, after a frantic new beginning, there were the years when he became one of the most notorious members of the Sinatra Rat Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night all-white parties. "Howcum we never see Sammy Davis hangin...
...King Rat pumps new energy into the seemingly endless cycle of World War II film dramas, most of which are committed to tight-lipped heroics and epic battle scenes. This brutal,-unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp is made of stronger stuff. While retaining the scenario form of James Clavell's 1962 novel, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) often goes Clavell one better in the harsh words and harsher images that synthesize the horrors of Changi, an isolated compound near Singapore where 10,000 inmates struggle against starvation, disease...
...pick of Rat's litter is Corporal King, a cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market. Get yours, reasons the King, and despite rigid camp rules against trading, he gets his: watches, rings, or the shirt off another prisoner's back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition...
...fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides - Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo. And they are handling the animal skins like fabric, tailoring them into haute couture shapes, cutting them into culottes, evening gowns and leggings. Taking even greater lib erties, the furriers are dyeing skins col ors nature never dreamed of, and in patterns taken right off the walls of an Op-Pop gallery. The fun furs are for secretaries who want the feel of fur without the financial pinch of mink and for two-mink socialites...
...come here because I like to watch ratty-eyed kids in ratty sweaters running at a rat-like gait from gloomy hovels populated, in too many cases, by crowded families and owned in an equal number of cases by the opulent residents of Brookline and Newton and other suburban greenbelts South and West...