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...Brother Rat (1938). Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman and the governor of California star in a comedy-drama about life at West Point. Ch. 27, 7 p.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...
...Luce tells us in elegant prose that Nixon is "one helluva gutsy fighter." So is a cornered rat...
...neat bit of story-line legerdemain Stones contrives that neither deserves the tube, and awards it to the rightful owner--the giant rat of sumatra, which for centuries has watched over the tube in the temple of Ampere-Watt. The English-man is very proper and aesthetically motivated. Class war is avoided, and Jonas Acme continues to grease the proletariat with Pig-oil beer--which doesn't make this record very revolutionary...
...four or five crazy guys" who arranged this record are wags, activists, and any picky Harvard lame-brain who's worth his salt will go batty hunting puns. More than any other Firesign Theatre album, the Rat bristles like a hedgehog with mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and plays on words. Its running gag on cocaine is especially amusing. In short, The Giant Rat is diverting, if facile...
Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...