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Critics say that these prebilling conditions are no more than a way to put the risks of building the pipeline on the shoulders of consumers. Said House Democrat Harold Volkmer of Missouri: "This is one big rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tapping Alaska for More Energy | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing "Rip 'em Up, tear 'em up." But the words made headlines all over the world as a statement of bloody Saudi intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A World of Exaggeration! | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair the 30-ft. rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Whoosh Goes the Big Top | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Inevitably, the popularity of Rubik's Cube has encouraged rip-offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubikmania | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning his old high school football helmet, and seeing the world for the first time through red eyes. Nicholson got the role as a fluke because Rip Torn dropped out; he finally got a break, after having lost the part of C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde because he looked too much like star Warren Beauty. What made Hansen so effective (and earned Nicholson an Oscar nomination) was his innocence and honest dreaming, contrasted with the others...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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