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...probably too late for the grizzly bear, the elk and other species, with the possible exception of the Norway rat, who was clever enough to adapt. If so, it's too late for mankind. Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself. Let's all take our about-to-be confiscated hunting rifles and kill the grizzlies in Glacier, but do it to save them the misery of choking on the wave of pollution that's bound...
...assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price is the gas chamber...
...into "Good Morning, Good Morning," interpreted by most Beatleologists as an affirmation of everything happy in life. But this is an ambiguous song, in which can also be seen a denunciation of the urban rat race. It uses country metaphors to comment on city life, starting out with a hearty cockcrow, but ending up with a pack of hounds yelping after their prey. Maybe life has the singer at bay, and he doesn't know...
...Authority claimed Wednesday that it is taking "stringent measures with respect to rat control, and the protection of persons and properties in the vicinity of the two demolition sites...
Watts, 1965, was the precursor and model for the race riots of 1967. In the sunny, sullen ghetto on Los Angeles' southeast side, all the elements of racial violence were present: rat-ridden housing, usurious white shopkeepers, broken black families, humiliating welfare-office routines, tough cops, kids with a yen to loot and lash out, and the random spark of a clumsy arrest. In this meticulously researched reconstruction, Robert Conot, 38, a Los Angeles newspaperman and novelist, shows how all those elements combined to produce six days of madness...