Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process." Every Man, a prizewinner at this year's Cannes Festival, is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented with all the insight of a caption in Ripley's Believe...
...Hallinans, father and son, make a striking and effective legal pair. Long one of the most successful defenders of radicals and outcasts on the West Coast, Vincent Hallinan says: "I'm a pretty lusty 78." He made Ripley's Believe It Or Not by playing half a game of rugby...
Schubert; Dio Schone Mullerin; David Ripley, bass, William McClelland, piano; Adams...
Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply to giants apply equally to dwarfs, except that exaggeration gives way to understatement." The strictures even apply to the McWhirter family. It is not that Ross McWhirter disbelieves his grandfather. He simply wants to state the fact correctly...
...August 2, a county chancellor in Ripley, Miss., issued an injunction specifically prohibiting picketing, boycotting, threatening persons from trading and "otherwise interfering with the business." The chancellor said he based his decision on a state law making it illegal to conspire to boycott a business when there is no "responsible grievance" against...