Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion, anything that can be interpreted as corrupting either morale or the war effort must be suppressed. Thirty newspapers, including Lau's Daily News, have either been suspended or permanently shuttered for publishing statements regarded as "unpatriotic." Songs that dwell longingly on peace are banned. The police sometimes rip flower decals off autos and motor scooters in the belief that these are symbols of a peace movement. Says one intellectual angrily: "Thieu thinks the army is everything. But you can't have a world without intellectuals, any more than you can have a world without women. They both...
...most explicit and protracted depiction of fellatio ever filmed for commercial distribution occurs in an as yet unreleased movie called Coming Apart, starring Rip Torn as a troubled psychiatrist. For all its howling commercial success, I Am Curious (Yellow) by comparison is about as erotic as Das Kapitol. Andy Warhol's latest film, a 90-minute sexorama appropriately titled Blue Movie, contains 45 minutes of realistically simulated copulation (heterosexual for a change...
...companies flood the area with advertisements-as they often do. Increased gasoline sales do not always make up for the cost of all the gewgaws and gimmickry that dealers must buy from the oil companies. The prices are set high, so that the dealers will not be tempted to rip open all the envelopes and simply collect the winnings. The federal commission is divided on whether to forbid the games or to regulate them more stringently; it is expected to reach a decision next month...
...They are absolutely the most ill-educated bunch the world has ever seen. They have no sense of history; that's why we have to relive the age of the Brownshirts, when students marched into German universities and took them over." Why are campus disorders spreading? "When they rip up one campus and all that happens is that their right to use the ice-cream-bar machine is revoked for one hour, what do you expect?" Should marijuana be legalized? "By all means. Also murder, rape and arson-then we could do away with all crime...
...John Vliet Lindsay held out a promise to New Yorkers to rescue their grimy, glittering metropolis from decades of Democratic decline. "I'm running for mayor be cause the city is in crisis," he told voters in his first mayoral campaign. "The streets are filthy. We'll rip down the cruddy slums in this town. There is crime. And people are afraid...