Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stark contrast to Boothe's omnipresent white suit. Nick sure is tough. He's the type of cop who casually slips vital evidence into his shirt pockets with his keys. The type of cop who cares but does not raise an eyebrow when he sees his best friend (Rip Torn) gunned down. The type of cop who says things like, "I'm particular who I drink with." The type of cop who is one walking macho cliche...
Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
...annual cost of all this testing, including the ELISA, confirmation tests and counseling, would probably be counted in the billions. But the personal and emotional costs of testing are immeasurable. "The test tends to rip people's lives apart," says Dooley Worth, who leads a support group of high- risk women, many of them former intravenous drug users, in Manhattan. "I've even seen couples who are both negative break up because of questions raised from just getting the test." For those who test positive, the psychological effect is devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing...
...resorting to underhanded methods of diplomacy devised in the White House basement in order to evade the will of Congress. The forthcoming Tower Commission Report threatens to expose him as a blatant liar What's more the contras themselves are engage in a damaging power struggle which threatens to rip asunder the United Nicaraguan Opposition, as well as the President's policy...
Scott F.M. Duncan '89 says he agrees with the first idea, if not the second. "I think it' d be fun to go out to an expensive dinner, do the roses and candy, and go dancing," he says. "And then rip off all my clothes...