Word: rip-off
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Happy Days. ABC. Tuesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. This is the American Graffiti rip-off in which the producers made off with the movie's star (Ron Howard) and its ambience (smalltown America in the 1950s), but with none of the sensitivity and sensibility that made the film memorable...
...about time that the rip-off of artists got some publicity and that something was done to remedy the present situation. Too long has the artist been considered the poor and rather eccentric relation, even within the educational system. Too often has the parasite become rich from the artist's sweat and tears...
...absolute shortage" of oil in past months. He thinks that the cause of the problem was that the government allowed the oil companies to dominate our energy policy, a situation which he hopes will change drastically. He says there was not any "effort to put together a world-wide rip-off by the oil companies--they aren't that sophisticated...
...father in Sounder earned him an academy award nomination, plays the title role in It's Good to Be Alive: The Story of Roy Campanella. Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher whose career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident. This might be another soapy, tear-jerking rip-off of Brian's Song. But with Winfield around, it also stands a good chance of being worth watching. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
DETROIT. Coleman Alexander Young's first speech as mayor was blunt and to the point. Squinting into the bright glare of TV lights in the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, he declared: "I issue an open warning right now to all dope pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit. I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Super Fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges: Hit the road...