Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bogart. The Brattle began its reading period Bogie festival last week and now To Have Or Have Not is on the bill. To avoid the most frustrating kind of rip-off, check out what the print is like from someone before you see the picture. Judging from the Brattle's Casablanca last week, your favorite lines are liable to be garbled and flashed out. They really shouldn't show mutilated movies...
...really demanding is that growth pay its way." Unless it does, he fears that Colorado will soon resemble the ravaged landscape of West Virginia. "We're all happy to be Americans," says this new-style states'-righter, "but we're not going to let you rip...
...instead of being an effort to rectify structures that prevent the poor from feeding themselves, is an attempt to preserve them. These current international and derivative internal economic orders jeopardize not only the lives of millions of people around the world, but more seriously for many involved, threaten to rip the veil away from the system of development which we, but mostly the poor, have paid to support. The very real shortages of food in the world are, conspicuously enough, brought on by an interaction of supply shortages in the rich countries, elite-dominated distribution of resources such as fertilizer...
...stories about the big ruby rip-off have appeared in Kenya's press, and the government apparently wants to keep it that way. Without directly mentioning the ruby affair, the Foreign Ministry warned at week's end that it "will not tolerate any section of the press, whether local or overseas, which tends to discredit the image of Kenya abroad." Kenya is a one-party state, and President Kenyatta has already been declared re-elected to another five-year term for lack of opposition. Still, in the parliamentary elections next week, publicity about high-level hanky-panky over...
...disquietingly prevalent yes. NIXON, FORD, ROCKY, THE SAME OLD SHIT, declared the complaint stenciled on an American flag at the University of Wisconsin. The Nixon pardon coming on the same day as Evel Knievel's canyon plunge, declared Wisconsin Student Michael Stiklstad, amounted to "the two biggest rip-offs of the public in one day in the history of the country...