Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publish the book. And not according to Izak Haber, who says he conceived the idea for Steal, did 90% of the research, wrote a 700-page manuscript that Abbie merely edited, and was promised 70% (but is getting only 22½%) of the royalties. "It was a brute-force rip-off," says Haber. Abbie, who decided not to appear at the "trial," denies it all. "An unmitigated lie," he countered. "I wrote the book, it's my style, and you name me one researcher that ever got 22½% of the royalties of a book." . . . The party in Manhattan...
...Ripon Rip-Off. Monday was not doing so well either, until Lofton took it over a year ago. The son of a conservative Florida lawyer, the new editor never went to college but got his higher education as a reading-room attendant in the Library of Congress. By shrewdly publicizing the 20-odd letters he had written to Washington editors during the Goldwater campaign, Lofton got the job as editor of the Vermont Sunday News, owned by right-wing New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb. Three years later, Lofton went to Washington to edit the newsletter of the House Republican Campaign...
...next popular attraction may be entitled "Raskolnikov's Rip...
...often in the municipal court three blocks from the school. Students have also taken over a psychiatrist's vacant office in the Wayne County jail for on-the-spot legal consultations. "This is really the underside of the law," explains one student. "Defending indigents is a source of rip-offs for many shady lawyers. They get paid by the court for spending as little as five minutes with a client after cronies on the bench assign them to a case...
...They got Dobermans to rip your arms off. Some of these places got moats." The speaker is Pat Angelo (Alan King), a Mafioso gone straight. Plump and vested, he wants no part in a major crime planned by ex-Con Duke Anderson (Sean Connery). But Duke is persuasive, the take promises to be in the millions, and what the hell, Pat misses the glorious game of cops and robbers. So he gives the green light and the dirty sport begins, with a Fifth Avenue luxury apartment house as the scene of the heist...