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...strikes and runs unseen beneath the rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Testament To Civility NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's to Blame? | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...Institutional Policy Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Overseers. President Bok and Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 will act like the travel agents who came to your high school trying to sell you a trip for spring break. Instead of trying to unload a rip-off vacation, though, Bok and Steiner will be trying to push the University's South Africa investment policy...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Selling the Overseers Short | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...special, advertised at $99 for seven days, would actually cost $230.95 for full protection. Consumer advocates argue that many motorists do not need such coverage. "Car-rental companies try to intimidate customers into buying this insurance," says Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization. "It's a rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting 'Em Where It Hertz | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...decades, film exhibition was, as Industry Analyst Paul Kagan notes, "essentially a Rip Van Winkle business." Exhibitors let their urban theaters decay into rancid zoos, with crummy projection and that mysterious glop that makes your shoes stick to the flypaper floor. Or they sliced handsome old palaces into tiny tenement cinemas, where SRO could mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Master of The Movies' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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