Word: ripping
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...including a session of silently mouthing something like the Marseillaise when the wheels of justice grind too slowly. Even when the script asks to be played by leer, her gamin charm turns it into innocent merriment, as when she mimics her active lover: "He'd just tear and rip every which way, and I hate sewing." But there are always traces of the Harris poignance, a little girl lost and a trifle afraid, waking up in beds she never made...
...commissioned six years ago by Doubleday and the New York Times (Researcher E. B. Long was hired for the project, has traveled 50,000 miles compiling 15,000 pages of notes). It is Catton's thesis that such leaders, with their passions and vacillations and helplessness against the rip tides of controversy, helped bring on the tragedy of civil war. Then, in the crucible of conflict, they melted away, until only two were left who counted. Writes Catton: "Of all the leaders, two men had the terrible capacity to make men love them and to strike with unrestrained furv...
...last week at the 337th weary session in Room VIII of the Palais. Scratchy showed no signs of interest, for he was just back from an informative weekend in Moscow. He knew that even as Dean spoke preparations had begun for the Russian nuclear explosion that would not only rip a large hole out of Central Asia, but blast the Geneva talks into oblivion as well...
...watering down college curriculums with courses in headline writing. Last week the University of New Mexico's Keen Rafferty, 59, chairman of the smallest accredited journalism department in the U.S. (two faculty members, 45 students), talked back to some of journalism's biggest critics with some rip-roaring criticism...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...