Search Details

Word: rigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...identifies himself on the air, and what the movie seems to be saying is that one should use some care in picking it. There is a tendency to act out, first in fantasy, then in reality, the sort of life suggested by one's handle. In effect, a CB rig offers a form of power to the powerless of our society, a way for them to make themselves heard in a world that does not pay them much heed. This is what has become of the Middle Americans who exercised such a powerful, if brief, hold on journalistic and political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enormous Radio | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Berenson distributed handbills before the election, alleging that "There has been an attempt to rig this election...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Vote Controversy Marks Republican Club Election | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin's rig; the other three followed in the Peugeot with the two hostages. Trottin and the other trucker, neither of whom is a police suspect, were released 15 minutes later on Paris' northern outskirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Francs a Lot | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, where he donned red coveralls and a white hard hat with "President Jimmy Carter" painted on in green-and pronounced himself in favor of further offshore exploration all along the Atlantic Coast. In fact, he said on returning to New Orleans, the U.S. should seriously consider building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Jimmy, the Bible | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Eventually the four anti-heroes land in a remote Latin American village, where stereotypes of malnourished Indians wallow stupidly in stereotypes of squalid, muddy hovels. (The village has grown up around an American oil company's rig, it seems, and for a moment we wonder whether the film's politics will make more sense than its story. But the superficially political events--an enraged populace stones a few soldiers, for instance--are unexplained rituals, bad theater without meaning or any attempt at meaning.) An oil well catches fire and to extinguish the flames the oil company needs vast quantities...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: A Splatter of Blood | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | Next