Word: ripping
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...student, Michael O. Minor '87, expressed characteristic dismay. "Sage's prices are way too high, they're a rip-off. I'm very upset about this, he said...
...football player he is supposed to be. (Jones was an all-Ivy, all-East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production of Cat) makes Big Mama a more sympathetically human figure than one has a right to expect. Only Rip Torn, as Big Daddy, seems miscast. He has the bluster but not the bombast of the aging tycoon, and his Southern accent contains a trace of irony that seems to emanate from the actor, not the character. This is a Medium-Size Daddy at best. Still, the play, and Lange...
...liver and kidney disease; in Torrance, Calif. Appearing with the Beatles on British TV in 1965, she was acknowledged by them as a major innovative force in rock 'n' roll. Her death came only three weeks after that of Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton, a rip-roaring blues shouter who also had a profound influence on white singers...
...whole album permeates a sense of regression and risklessness; perhaps the most disheartening song on the album. "What Becomes a Legend Most," epitomizes this stepping back. A rip-off of Reed's earlier classic with the Velvet Underground, "New Age," the song signals an emptiness that has gripped this slugger. This man needs some new ideas. Limply rehashing old material does not become a legend...
Prospective buyers and sellers must now go to court to haggle over prices on about 5,700 lots in 39 tracts of land, most of them owned by the Bishop estate. Myron Thompson, a trustee of the Bishop estate, calls the process perhaps "the greatest rip-off of this nation in the 20th century...