Word: rips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hastened to explain. "But I decided that the Lord had been good to me, and I wanted to give the public the benefit of my experience." He has no plans to accept the invitations he has received to speak about the Chicago Seven trial. Still, "I could do some rip-roaring speeches-though they might not pay me as much as they pay [Defense Attorney] William Kunstler...
Moments later, Actor Rip Torn, who has played a bodyguard called Raoul Key O'Houlihan, goes after Mailer (or Kingsley) with a hammer. "You're supposed to die, Mr. Kingsley," Torn yells. "You must die, not Mailer." The director stares at him in frightened disbelief. At that moment, Mailer later said, it was impossible for him to tell whether Torn was serious or only acting. Torn claimed he was acting, but audiences still cannot tell as they watch the episode. In this scene Mailer achieves his objective: the melding of screen illusion and reality...
...anthology of improvisations from children's fables, was the major embarrassment of the PBS premières. The gentle whimsy and fantasy of the original tales withers in a broad, shrill production better suited to the Minsky circuit. Kids of all ages would call it a vulgar rip-off from the Story Theater (TIME, March 1), which has been far more sensitively translated to TV by Creator Paul Sills in a syndicated commercial series. CRITIC-AT-LARGE is a quarter-hour with Berkeley Associate Professor of Journalism David Littlejohn, 34, putting his bite, or perhaps overbite, on subjects ranging...
After sweeping the weekend doubleheader with a win over The Princetonian, the Crime gang crashed a party at one of the eating clubs, proceeded to rip a stereo speaker off the wall during an oldie orgy, and eventually was physically ejected in time to catch the second show of Channel 43's "Creature Feature." The gang returned to Cambridge Sunday evening, physically exhausted but triumphant...
Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...