Word: rips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequent asbestos factories. The combined effects of day-to-day wear and tear on asbestos-containing products, as well as a certain degree of industrial planned obsolescence, insure that varying amounts of the fiber will be continuously liberated into the consumer's air. Floor tiles scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This feeds directly into the bloodstream, the equivalent of a week...
...seat belt [April 29]. But it was not easy to regain control of my car. First, I had to get rid of the offensive red light that glared "Fasten Seat Belt." I thought this would still the buzzer, but no; luckily, my adrenaline gave me the power to rip out the wiring system. I also managed to dismantle the buzzer that told me the key was in the ignition while the door was open. My wife and I still use our seat belts at all times-but without the accompanying sonet lumiere...
...chance see a group of long-haired young men playing a game that looks suspiciously like helmet-less football with vaguely suicidal rules, do not be alarmed. And if there is an air of the 19th century about them, do not worry, you are not a latter-day Rip Van Winkle...
...fresh music. Music director David Garlock, working with half a dozen orchestrators and a fine 21-member orchestra, has shined up the original score with some fairly sophisticated arrangements that owe more to modern classical music than to Hollywood. But these changes are never pretentious and the orchestra can rip into genuine schmaltz when it's called...
Happy Days. ABC. Tuesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. This is the American Graffiti rip-off in which the producers made off with the movie's star (Ron Howard) and its ambience (smalltown America in the 1950s), but with none of the sensitivity and sensibility that made the film memorable...