Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tidy rip-off here, a tasteful price-gouge there−it was all to be expected once the Democrats had picked New York City as the site of their convention. But not even the worldly-wise among the press had anticipated the size of the serpents that lurk around the Big Apple and its Garden; Madison Square, that...
Newton remains part interstellar phantom, part earthbound Howard Hughes. He watches a dozen television sets at once. Newton is also a curiously vulnerable superbeing. He is intrigued by a Southwestern hotel clerk named Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), dogged by a curious scientist named Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), whom he eventually hires and who betrays him. Newton plans to use his vast industrial resources to build a spacecraft that will return him to his dying planet, the tiny population of which will then be borne to earth. This idea does not go down well on terra firma. People in high places...
Grizzly is too cheapjack to be a considerable success, but it also will not need much of a return at the box office to show a modest profit. It is notable mainly as the first in what promises to be an infestation of Jaws sequels, rip-offs and derivations. Universal is presently at work on the official reprise, Jaws II. Other studios will soon bring forth films about marauding crocodiles, deadly swarms of bees, a car - apparently driverless- that terrorizes a small town, and a plague of earthworms, this last called Squirm. Most of these items hold little promise...
...City of Brotherly Love with a third place finish in the NCAA winter championships under his belt. Sophomore Ajootian possesses "a lot of raw talent," according to Harvard track mentor Bill BcCurdy. "He still has some flaws in his swing," McCurdy admits, "but I'm hopeful he can rip off one big throw to get into the thick of the hunt...
...group had started its own recording and production company, Apple Records, which was also meant to serve as a kind of Ford Foundation for the counterculture. The place attracted all sorts of daytrippers, rip-off artists and weirdos. "People were robbing us and living off us," Lennon comments. "Eighteen or 20 thousand pounds a week was rolling out of Apple and nobody was doing anything about...