Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four Musketeers. The first part of this was fun, but this extension is a serious rip-off. Richard Lester knows his craft as a director; certainly this is a beautiful movie visually and it is fast. But too fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...
...with a poker face, that the Wilson report attacked. Sensing the anxiety that boiled in residents as they were led from the old Office of Civic and Government Relations to the Planning Office to the Real Estate Office, whenever they wanted simple answers concerning the wrecking machines about to rip into their houses, the Wilson report recommended that a vice president for external affairs be appointed to establish community policy and answer directly to neighborhood queries. Wilson points out today that this suggestion was later incorporated...
...every one of the keys of my typewriter I am the clean white pages and the word sprawled used ones, I am the sunlight on my own walls--rip off your dress, life, tear off your clothes, world, left me come closer listen: I am a sated, tired, happy writer have to make love to the world...
...subterranean society of professional crime, the fence is an economic necessity. Godfather to rip-off artists ranging from truck hijackers to snatch-and-grab junkies, the fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling...
...Rip Off. Thomas Enders, an Assistant Secretary of State, launched the idea in a speech at Yale before it had been discussed with other policymakers. Treasury Secretary William Simon said the speech surprised not only him but also "many people in the State Department." Representative Henry Reuss, Democrat of Wisconsin, observed in dismay: "I just wonder what it shall profit the American consumer of oil if he is freed from the tyranny of the OPEC only to be ripped off by the U.S. oil companies...