Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skiddy von Stade '38, Master of Mather House and dean of Freshmen, says that the locking of Yard and Mather House entries has lowered crime in these areas. "We've only had one serious rip-off in Mather since we locked the entries, and that was the day before we installed locks on the elevators," von Stade said. He added that locking up of the Yard dorms and five of the eight gates to the Yard at night has substantially decreased the traffic from "off of the streets." Several times before the doors were locked non-student heroin users were...
...Skiddy von Stade '38, Master of Mather House and dean of Freshmen, says that the locking of Yard and Mather House entries has lowered crime in these areas. "We've only had one serious rip-off in Mather since we locked the entries, and that was the day before we installed locks on the elevators," von Stade said. He added that locking up of the Yard dorms and five of the eight gates to the Yard at night has substantially decreased the traffic from "off of the streets." Several times before the doors were locked non-student heroin users were...
Recent and anticipated technical advancements have whisked us to the threshold of an era of rebuilt humans, of makeshift immortality. Transplants and artificial organs may distort distinctions between man and his fellow man, and man and machine. Suspended animation may create real-life Rip van Winkles. Doctors have already agonized over choices of who to let live. While a poor man formerly had the consolation of knowing his employer couldn't "take it with him," expensive innovations may some day permit a wealthy man to live indefinitely...
...Angeles squad, noting that karate takes years to master, advocates screaming as a possible alternative. Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...
...Whenever an image or process appears in Nauman's show that looks vaguely interesting, one may be sure it was worked out years before by either Johns or Duchamp. So with Nauman's casts and templates of parts of his body, which are merely spin-offs and rip-offs from Johns in the late '50s and, more distantly, from Duchamp's own interest in molding. That some of these Naumans are made of neon tubing does not alter this, any more than the fact that some of his word-pieces (e.g., a sign that lights...