Word: rip-off
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...press. Though the client was eventually acquitted, Bailey was suspended from practice in New Jersey for a year and censured by the Massachusetts Bar. He also overextended himself, writing?and vigorously promoting?two bestsellers, hosting a TV interview show, and serving as nominal publisher of Gallery, a copy-kitten rip-off of Playboy. He even made plans to play himself in a movie, The Sam Sheppard Story. Suddenly, things began to sour. The movie never got off the ground, the TV show was canceled and he left Gallery. His helicopter company was slow to lift off (it only recently began...
...pointy heads are all thrown into the Potomac River," he harangued, "we'll live in fear of criminal thugs on the one hand and federal judges on the other." He lambasted the "filthy rich" and their tax-free foundations. He lashed the Eastern press and "the welfare rip-off artists." In an area where unemployment is 14%, he blasted the multinational companies for taking jobs out of the country. He blamed the Federal Government for not helping the shoe industry because it is "too busy busing little children in Springfield...
...movies passed the House last year. It is pending before the Senate Finance Committee and a new attempt to muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...
...permitting good word of mouth to build, saturation bookings timed to coincide with the Academy Award nominations that the director and studio believe are inevitable. Warner salesmen wish they had something simpler on then-hands-a great sloshy romance like Dr. Zhivago, for instance, or at least a rollicking rip-off of olden times, like Tom Jones. Now Kubrick will help sell his picture. Among other things, he employs a bookkeeper to chart how films have played in the first-run houses of key cities, so his films can be booked into those with the best records. But the fact...
...Ships. Clearly, many Americans are persuaded that the U.S. is being had once again. Meany has called the Soviet grain buying "just a rip-off of the American consumer" for the sake of a "phony" détente. But he also shares a specific concern of the maritime unions: shipping arrangements. The dock workers are still angry about 1972, when the bulk of the 24 million tons of grain and soybeans sold to Russia was shipped in vessels belonging to foreign countries. This time the unions want Administration assurances that 50% of the Russian-bound grain will move...