Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of thing that happens when you've got a lot of kids out on the street with no place to go. We try to give the kids some entertainment and a place to go to sit and talk for an hour. But a lot of these other places rip you off. The problem with the Casablanca was that it catered to a rough crowd--and it ended up hurting them," he said...
...modern Rip Van Winkle, emerging from a 20-year siesta in Sleepy Hollow, would probably vote for Nixon in September because it would be the only name on the ballot he would recognize. Moreover, he would not only recognize the name but also the style, for as Nixon himself notes, his style has not been adapted to keep pace with the times...
...RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE by PETER HANDKE It is difficult to say what this play means, but relatively easy to tell you how to write it. Rip out pages from lonesco, Pinter, Beckett, Kafka, the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein and Alice in Wonderland. Tear these into tiny fragments and scatter them on the stage. Austrian Playwright Peter Handke, 29, is a derivative word-vandal. He is currently quite the vogue in Europe, which suggests that the decline of the West is progressing more rapidly than Spengler envisioned...
...Dickensian images of gaunt orphans on scholarships assembling goodies all night in dank cellars, while completing math problem sets with their toes. The goodies, of course, were actually preassembled by one of the many fly-by-night outfits which, with the help of inside units such as HSA, annually rip off students and their naive parents for millions of dollars. (This was the same year HSA almost succeeded in getting free copies of Boston After Dark banned from campus on the grounds that their own entertainment calendar deserved a monopoly. Competition immediately put the HSA publication out of business...
...makes good on his claim." Jackie is no less forthright about his victims. "I need their goddamn cars more than they do," he says. "I'm trying to save up enough money to buy a house and get my family out of this goddamn rip-off city." Oscar has already made the move out of New York; he lives in Connecticut...