Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rip-roaring success," says Oregon Governor Tom McCall. He points to a three-month-long survey of receptacles along 25 selected roads and highways which found 75% fewer cans and bottles than usual. McCall's conclusion: even relatively affluent Americans will return containers to claim the deposit. The container and bottling industries disagree, contending that, despite the law, the number of discarded empties has actually increased. Moreover, the manufacturers say, Oregon's law is needlessly hurting industry...
...rip all of them to shreds. We're tops in this area. It's only down around Providence that we start getting shaky," Hagerty said yesterday...
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...Stefan Kanfer's Essay, "The Returned: A New Rip Van Winkle" [Feb. 19], was a deeply penetrating and moving emotional experience. It may have served as a guide to the new America for the P.O.W., But it also forced me to wonder what and where "home" really is in this country...
PAYDAY chronicles 36 hours in the life of a minor country-and-western singer called Maury Dann, a sort of Orpheus pretending who boozes, wenches pops pills and passes along the old payola. As played and sung by Rip Torn -eyes bulging, teeth bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched...