Word: rodents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness...
...water or ethyl alcohol during the early stages of the experiment, the rats, which normally shun alcohol, always opted for the water. But, Myers and Melchoir write in Science, after only three days of THP treatment the teetotaling rats began switching to the sauce. Indeed, after a while the rodents became so addicted that they exhibited all the symptoms of alcoholism, including a rodent version of delirium tremens (DTs) characterized by whisker-twitching, jerking movements and "wet-dog" shakes...
...star line-up. Jackson perfects a controlled deadpan; she achieves the Nixon scowl without the jowl. As a John Dean-like scapegoat, Sandy Dennis physically resembles a cross between the bespectacled Dean and a chipmunk in desperate need of orthodontic work. Mentally, she comes closer to a rodent in a behaviorist experiment as she blindly obeys Jackson's commands. Dennis impersonates Dean's monotone well, but her lines lack the variety to make her part interesting rather than grating...
...young rodent hopped to life in the pages of a cautionary tale. His name was Peter, and he was to become the most celebrated rabbit since the Easter Bunny. Now, upon his 75th birthday, the little creature betrays no signs of age-or, for that matter, maturity. Nor do Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments...
Rodgers and Hart's 1940 show Pal Joey about a handsome rodent of a gigolo was their best work and one of the greatest scores written for the theater--witty, melodic and cynical. It's never revived. Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration has been done (one would bet) in most high-school auditoriums, gymnasiums and summer-stock tents in America. It's been done by Guy Lombardo on water and by Fred Zinnemann in Cinemascope. On any given night, its score can be heard in a solid minority of the nation's shower stalls. I myself appeared...