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...self-contained. In his middle-sized home town of Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...
...instead warped the farm economy, e.g., Northwest farmers, restricted on wheat acreage, grow barley instead, and are now starting a cattle-feeding program to use the barley. "The hell of it is," said one of them, "all it would take is an administrative ruling right now to rip up the whole program...
...Rip Off the Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...
Running from the sound of the exploding grenade, Private Tamura felt a fragment rip his shoulder and saw the gouged chunk of his own flesh lying on the ground. He picked it up, wiped it clean and popped it into his mouth. He was that hungry and, besides, "There could certainly be nothing wrong in eating my own flesh...
...Biff! Bang! Wallop!" In search of a hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...