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...over Walsh's identical body mike from across the street. The Feds demanded Marra, the bug and the cash. "I politely told them where to go," says Walsh. Marra went to jail. An embarrassed FBI was left muttering darkly about investigating who tipped off Walsh. "I smelled a rat," Walsh explained angelically...
...question of whether Washington can survive with its main engine in neutral is far less urgent than whether reporters can survive a month without presidential news. One can only do so much with the story of the local rat carrying the bubonic plague, unless, of course, the plague recurs. About 70 members of the press corps are encamped in Santa Barbara, all living fairly well, that being the way to live in Santa Barbara, but some going quietly mad nonetheless, as the President cuts and clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing...
...cops they have suborned. But this movie is a moral, not a criminal, investigation. The people he works for have cases to break, headlines to make, careers at stake. They need to squeeze every drop of usefulness out of him; he needs to defend his honor by refusing to rat on his friends. By the end he has gently been led to the most terrible betrayals of self, friends and family who must now live under guard and threat of death. And so slowly, undramatically, have the jaws of the vise closed on him it is impossible to say when...
...debentures, and took the post of chairman of his company, which became a new Warner subsidiary. Since then, Atari has broadened from electronic games to personal computers. Bushnell had been working on the Pizza Time concept at Atari; but before the first of the computerized robots, a wisecracking rat named Chuck E. Cheese, emerged from the lab, the company had been bought by Warner Communications...
...lies at the heart of nearly every conversation John Gwaltney has recorded in his new book, whose title means "ordinary" in one American Black argot. One man, a coal miner, says this of whites: "Just thinking about them makes me feel like I have swallowed shit. I mean, a rat or a maggot is better than the best white cat who ever drew breath. Just looking at those things makes me want to spit up. Everything they do is rotten." Or this from a cook: "These people hide their dirt or make everybody lie and say their dirt...