Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hills and woods of western North Carolina. He was a strange one, this pick-up trucker with long white hair and a stringy gray-and-tobacco-brown mustache. When he emoted about his organic garden, he sounded like nothing so much as General Jack "purify our bodily essences" Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, he was that intense and dogmatic about it. But he was vegetarian, he meditated, and his eyes twinkled when he mentioned his "cash crop"--marijuana...
...others, where every line seems just right. And quotable. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed to create Henry Kissinger five years before Nelson Rockefeller did. The climactic line of the film, "Mein...
Kung Fu is essentially an Oriental successor to the Bump, which in turn was preceded on the dance floor by the Philly-Dog, the Boston Monkey, the Boogaloo, the Frug, the Roach, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, Jack-the-Ripper, the Fly, La Pachanga, the Dish Rag, the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Horse, the Twist and the Madison (renamed the Stomp). And before that, as exhumed by late-night World War II movies, there was Frank Sinatra jitterbugging...
...Federation, is announcing a similar marketing program aimed at children. For the next four months, Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven food stores will contribute to the federation 1? from the sale of each 250 Slurpee, a crushed-ice drink in a cup featuring drawings by Wildlife Artist Charles Ripper. The federation will use the money to buy an 835-acre area in South Dakota currently home for 15% of the surviving American bald eagles; the land will then become a preserve under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior. To secure the purchase, Southland has already forwarded...
...Victorian epoch? The notion is at once revolutionary and traditional. Two decades ago, in A Study in Terror, Ellery Queen affected to find a fugitive manuscript of Dr. John H. Watson, M.D. It told of Holmes' pursuit of one John the Harlot Killer, also known as Jack the Ripper. For The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer "uncovers" another manuscript, detailing the adventures of the stately Holmes of England in his struggle against the temptations of "nose candy." He also trots out all the old Baker Street regulars: Toby the relentless mongrel; the world's longest-suffering landlady...