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...clinic for a second treatment of a common ear infection; to make the first visit, she had to take her five children on two different buses to a distant clinic, where she waited all day for a doctor to see the boy. A woman who lives in a rat-infested slum says that rats are no problem: she means that she has seen no more rats than usual that...
...Correspondent Robert Anson, working on the story in Vientiane, Laos. At one point Anson noted that he had managed to set up a private minibureau for TIME in an abandoned airline office near his hotel. "It has a chair, a desk, a telephone and a rat, but we call it home...
...summer a female sportswriter sued to gain access to the press box at a professional football game; a feature writer won the right to withhold her byline from "wives-of-famous-men" assignments. And three months ago, women staffers ousted the male hierarchy of the underground and pornographic newspaper, Rat...
...Rats, for example, takes us to an oversized nursery in a Harlem tenement. Jebbie, "a fat Harlem rat," sits counting his money amidst a six-foot-high crib and ten-foot baby chair. It is quite possible that a metaphor of a man as a rat in the nursery of the universe was implied, but Horovitz did not choose to develop the play in that direction. Bobby is a hung-up Greenwich, Connecticut rat. Jebbie exclaims, "I gotta tell you kid, I'm hip to your problems (Greenwich and all that) because I get calls from two-hundred little madras...
Jack Kehoe as Jebbie and Andrew Winner as Bobby were sufficiently rat-like to cause giggles in the audience, but were hesitant in delivering their lines. As a result, the jokes degenerated into patter. Al Pacino's direction should have given the play a big kick on its rump to speed it up, but remained restrained...