Word: rip-off
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...next popular attraction may be entitled "Raskolnikov's Rip...
Just as alumni never fork over as much money to the University as the University hopes they will, we lackeys didn't rip-off the kinds of rewards we were looking for. But, the odd thing about it was that by the end of the whole siege it really didn't matter...
...just be setting myself up for a rip-off if I ever got into any kind of hassle with the dude. Because if I got into a hassle, I'd still be a person, but he'd have to be a pig. It'd happened to me so many times, that whole riff...
Negligible as a piece of film making, The Strawberry Statement is an interesting study in Hollywood exploitation, a classic "rip-off," as kids these days refer to robbery. The film makers ignored the issue of campus politics (the one real revolutionary is portrayed as a speed freak who wears an eye patch and talks like a paranoid Long John Silver), and produced something that might be called Andy Hardy Gets Busted. A few more films like Getting Straight (TIME, May 18) and The Strawberry Statement, and students may begin occupying what is left of MGM's offices instead...