Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell has had its disappointments this year, but its momentum is heading in the opposite direction of Harvard's. After a miserable early season that saw the Red's 30 game winning streak crumble with two straight losses to R.P.I. and Brown. Cornell has come back to rip off seven wins...
...Joyce Carol Oates is not a women's liberationist. She is not as groovy as Gloria Steinem, nor as chic as Carrie Snodgress. You can't rip her books off the Coop's feminist display table and liberate your grandmother for Chanukah. But The Wheel of love. Oates' latest collection of short stories, is probably the most powerful and harrowing compilation of female confessionals shared in a long time...
...nearly two months, Actors' Equity has been trying to improve that dismal old scale. After negotiations over contract renewal finally broke down briefly last week, the union called a strike that closed down 16 off-Broadway shows.* Among the strikers were Geraldine Page and her husband, Rip Torn, who interrupted previews of a new Macbeth. Miss Page walked the picket lines in front of the Circle in the Square theater, where she had put off-Broadway on the map 20 years before in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. She noted that even then she was making...
Until Easy Rider, Nicholson seemed destined to drift endlessly in and out of second-rate horror, motorcycle and drug movies with his friends Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Easy Rider could have been, of course, just another in the cycle cycle. Fortunately for Nicholson, Rip Torn, originally cast as the Southern lawyer, bowed out and Nicholson's friends from Head, Producer Bert Schneider and Director Bob Rafelson, suggested Jack for the role. "I went immediately to work on the dialect. Drew a lot on L.B.J." For the campfire scene, his favorite, he says: "I smoked about 155 joints. Keeping...
...entire plantations of snow-covered seedlings. In parts of California's Sequoia National Forest, trail bikes were banned after they started erosion that was ruining hills and the breeding grounds of golden trout. With their six chubby wheels churning, ATVs ravage blueberry crops, chew up stream bottoms and rip the thin top layer of vegetation off swamps...