Word: ripoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is part ripoff, part a paean to the potential of positive thinking. Karbo advises readers to see themselves as winners, and enter the mail-order business. He is less than specific about what one reader should sell, counseling readers to determine what they are best at, then figure out a product or service that can capitalize on that talent...
...joke is of course Bond's whiteness in black Harlem. There is an obligatory Harlem shot (125th and Lenox probably). But this is obviously not Harlem, because this Harlem has no people, only pimps and pimp cars. It's a set piece, all clothes and cars. The Superfly ripoff is appalling. The book prided itself on a painstaking accuracy, from Bond's particular Martini to a long, well-researched passage on Caribbean voodoo. The movie confines itself to elaborate coffee makers and magnetic watches...
...confession and reform, since Marjoe has now put the God pitch behind him to become, he hopes, an out-and-out show business star. That would be more honest, to be sure. But the road to repentance seems hardly well served by a film that is itself a ripoff. Smith and Sarah Kernochan, the girl friend who co-produced and directed the film with him, used Marjoe's audiences as surely as he did: the tent meetings are real enough, but they were set up with Marjoe's connivance-just as a director of war movies, say, might...
...Postal Service, which until last year charged 2.48? to deliver a 7.6-oz. magazine to its readers. Two copies distributed for a nickel -the greatest bargain in power since the Tennessee Valley Authority. A steal? Postal authorities think so, and they say that it is time to stop the ripoff. So, in addition to increasing the cost of first-and third-class mail, they are currently escalating second-class (magazine and newspaper) rates by an average 127% over five years (see THE PRESS). If a raise anywhere near that size takes effect, nickel power will end-and with...
...busted for, Barbra Streisand says in movies now, and people just react with 'Isn't that cute?' " To judge from the previews, Lenny is a sincere testament, whatever the verdict of the New York critics. Dirty-mouth, the film, on the other hand, looks like a ripoff. Made on a budget that could not have been much higher than a ticket to the movie itself, it features Bernie Travis, a borscht belt-style comic sweating through an Alumicron suit, impersonating Lenny as if he were a bileful Henny Youngman...