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...scatological rereadings of history, Reed comes up with an idea called Neo-HooDooism, a pastiche of an imaginary, ancient African aesthetic and a rip-off from the HooDoo coven of black poets to which Reed belongs. What plot there is to Mumbo Jumbo deals with a search for the ancient, original HooDoo text...
...Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format, big type and plenty of white space, rewrote some passages, and dropped most Old Testament references. The reputable firm of Pocket Books has 100,000 copies of this rip-off in print. A better bargain is Pocket Books' 95? Good News for Modern Man, the American Bible Society's brisk translation not only of Levi Alphaeus' Gospel, but all the rest of the New Testament...
...agency that deals with Harvard students is going to be regarded as a rip-off because that's the way students here look at any business," Jon E. Jenett '74, one of the newly-elected directors said last night. "The only way we can change that image is by radically improving our services," he added...
...these, however, and theatre entrepreneur Ben Sack seems to sense it. In his advertising, he stresses the appearance of Derek Sanderson and the Boston Bruins, though they are present for maybe four of the film's 100 minutes. It's promotional hype, of course, and probably a rip-off, since the admission price is $3. You're better off buying a seat in Boston Garden, sitting with the Gallery Gods, and trying to sort out for yourself what the game is all about...
...Boston After Dark banned from campus on the grounds that their own entertainment calendar deserved a monopoly. Competition immediately put the HSA publication out of business.) The president of HSA that year, Andrew Tobias, went on to help assemble several of these outfits into a $100 million student rip-off conglomerate called National Student Marketing, about which, following its collapse last year, he wrote a cute, self-effacing book called "The Funny Money Game." Now he's at the B-School learning how to do it better next round. It's time for Harvard to recall HSA's halo...