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None of this would be so painful if it was rip-off plain and simple. The rip-off, however, is a righteous one. Harvard may in fact hate America but it hates this guy a lot more...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...urge. The revue begins with Guy Garrett, 24, a former construction worker who parades onstage dressed in a white satin vest and glittery pants. Gyrating to the blast of disco music, he invites women to help him unzip, and for a close he allows a giggling fan to rip off his G string. Unadorned, he leaps into the audience for one last strut, hugging and kissing customers and getting goosed in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...almost no one was prepared for what Carter set in motion Tuesday morning: the most thoroughgoing, and puzzling, purge in the history of the U.S. presidency.* His Cabinet had lasted intact longer than those of the great majority of Presidents: 30 months. It took him exactly 72 hours to rip it apart. Out went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...atoning for a lifetime of atrocities before his bulldozer goes over the cliff. But it was too late for John Wayne. When he died he met 50,000 American ghosts, and quite a host of Vietnamese. They had a lynching party for John Wayne in Heaven last week. They ripped out his guts and they ripped out his spleen. And then there was nothing left to rip...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Ding Dong | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Express. The Star promised to run all three weeks' worth on June 25. Meanwhile, the White House added Doonesbury to the President's daily news summary. Vowed Press Secretary Jody Powell: "As soon as the Department of Energy and the Department of Justice get through looking for rip-offs by the oil industry, we are going to let them look for Doonesbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Doonesday | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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