Word: ripping
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...father in Sounder earned him an academy award nomination, plays the title role in It's Good to Be Alive: The Story of Roy Campanella. Campanella was the Brooklyn Dodgers catcher whose career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident. This might be another soapy, tear-jerking rip-off of Brian's Song. But with Winfield around, it also stands a good chance of being worth watching. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
Anti-personnel bombs flutter to earth and land silently in darkened rice fields. There they wait sinisterly, like chunks of debris. They explode only at human contact, spewing out hundreds of tiny steel pellets which rip, shred, maim and blind. Anti-personnel bombs do not discriminate between soldiers and old women and small boys walking behind the family water buffalo...
...first major patent 22 years ago on a device to break down and emulsify heavy liquids. His process is still widely used to prepare Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, cosmetics and paint. Five years ago he set out to design a more advanced machine, which would have enough force to rip apart single-cell organisms, releasing their protein to provide a cheap and plentiful food supplement. He built the Cottell Ultrasonic Reactor, which is hardly larger than a long loaf of bread and resembles an electric drill. The reactor is a mechanical torture chamber in which liquids and semiliquids are broken down...
...waves goodbye to the genre's habit of emphasizing plot instead of characterization. And Elliott Gould, as a Marlowe for the seventies, is like no detective we've ever seen before: a schlemiel forced to live up to his fantasies about justice and derring-do. He is a contemporary Rip Van Winkle, walking around modern-day Los Angeles with ideals and morals from a different...
...Harvard bubble collapsed during a wet and windy winter storm on December 21. High winds caused a rip in one corner of the vinyl-coated nylon, air-supported structure, and within two minutes it was deflated...