Word: ripoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What bothered the company about the issue was an unflattering account of food industry merchandising and meat-labeling practices. The 5,000-word article, titled "RipOff at the Supermarket" and excerpted from a forthcoming book on the food industry by Pop-Sociologist John Keats (The Sheepskin Psychosis, The Insolent Chariots), does not mention Safeway specifically. While denying that the company actually banned the magazine, Safeway spokesmen do say, without going into specifics, that they found the article to be "anti-industry" in posture-as indeed it was. Although it contained some roundhouse generalities (the food industry operates in a "moral...
...moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon in the fore, have attacked the system as a welfare ripoff. Even liberals are disturbed by the rush to food stamps by college students and workers on strike...
...nothing makes Crane seethe more than when the discussion turns to the Kennedy Library. Here is a project that makes him wish he was back on the council. "That JFK Library is a real ripoff. We spent over $50 million to make that site available for the library. And then the ENEs came in overnight. They started throwing their spears after we got the green light. They were well-represented, and well financed...
...Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools' piece. Actually, the biggest giveaway is the author's name: Martin Gardner...
...exhibit now under consideration represents something of a curiosity: a rip-off of a ripoff. It will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature...