Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Public Library riding roller skates and dumbwaiters, shuttling between a fast-working actress (Elizabeth Hartman) and a sloe-eyed librarian (Karen Black), wonder- ing which chick to turn. Off duty, he gets knocked about by a Wylie Mom and a wily Dad (Geraldine Page and Rip Torn). In the last reel the boy grows up, puts down his parents and stomps off to his librarian love...
Still, loyalties are never long-lived in Laos, and Souvanna's fragile web of alliances-of groups loyal to the top ten ruling families, to the military and to other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...with what we have," he said, noting that there were "heavy demands" on national resources. If his remarks indicate a willingness to see some things cut, there is no question about what the strengthened Republicans will attack. They will leave the war effort intact and rip into domestic programs, and it will take a determined President to defend expensive, controversial social legislation...
...handles the kicking chores for the Gators: he has averaged 40.8 yds. per punt, booted three field goals -including a last-minute 40-yarder against Auburn that won the game 30-27. The son of a Presbyterian minister, married to the niece of Penn State's former coach Rip Engle, Spurrier rarely smokes, drinks only an occasional beer, is active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Rumor has it that under secret terms of the pro merger, he is ticketed to the National Football League's New York Giants, who desperately need a top quarterback if they...
...than all readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...