Word: ratting
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...Paris for a setting, why not tell a love story? But somewhere along the production line, he decided to make a thriller instead. Then he turned the thriller into a sophisticated comedy of murders. Then he let the comedy degenerate into a bloody awful farce, the sort of shaggy rat story in which the customers are the real victims-they are inexorably gagged to death. He: "Would you like to see where I was tattooed?" She: "Yes!" He: "All right. We can drive by the place...
...third explanation of her dilemma views Nana as a refugee from the rat race in a hyper-Jules Feifferish world. But Nana cannot be convincing in so many roles at once...
Marshall, who never got to West Point, first took up soldiering at Virginia Military Institute, where his Pennsylvania twang immediately marked him as a stranger. The lowly "rat" was forced to squat over a bayonet; after 20 minutes Marshall fell and gashed his buttock but dutifully followed the code of silence. Marshall was a mediocre student but in his senior year was elected "first captain...
...court, and in one way or another, most of the grumblings reflected the same trait that got Sam into needless trouble in Alabama: he simply could not help putting his opinions and emotions loudly on the line. In the courtroom he referred to an accused criminal as a "rat" or an "animal." Occasionally he broke into a purple tirade. When a big-time gambler who had talked freely to a grand jury later clammed up in court, Leibowitz roared: "I'll give you a thousand years, if necessary! You'll be buried in jail...
...talk he titled "Second Stage Reflections on the Rat Race of Our Time," Hughes narrated the success story of the ambitious young scholar, who carefully picks a "manageable" thesis topic in as obscure field, hoping that it will be published, follows the thesis with three books in the same restricted area, winning the respect of book reviewers for his expertise, rising in a university hierarchy on account of his "productivity," until he reaches...