Word: rips
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...infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman, Colleen Dewhurst achieves a masterly transitional shading between feline will and wiles and the whole-souled vulnerability of love. Son Eben is played by Rip Torn, who unfortunately adopts a tone of flat understatement and clenched-nerves hysteria that tends to throw the play's passions off pitch...
...nation dedicated to gathering in the Jews of the world, Israel has never been able to answer a question basic to its existence: What is a Jew? Does a Jew become Jewish by birth, or by religious observance, or by mere inclination? Aware that providing an answer could rip apart the government's delicately balanced coalition of agnostic secularists and ultra-religious rabbis, the Knesset has never officially defined a Jew, although the word appears in many laws. Last week five justices of the Israeli Supreme Court retired to decide whether or not a tiny, bearded Roman Catholic monk...
...flinging of the arms, a flexing of the knees, and a sort of deep lumbar lean that threatens to topple him over backward. He may drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze smokily back. Or he may rip open his collar, tear off his string bow tie and mutter: "Now I can really get down to work." When he sings Arrivederci, Roma, he breaks off to speak of his mother: "I wish she were here. From the back of the room you'd hear her little voice saying...
...plants are as useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S. The puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle. Humans get stabbed by the burrs when they garden, walk barefoot or when they pitch in to a harvest. Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris-"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. One gloomy and romantic afternoon in Paris an arrogant young rip (Paul Guers) strolls out of his expensive flat and-hello! A beautiful girl (Marie Laforet) is sitting in his sports car. Her eyes are large and soulful. One elegant long finger rests lightly on her lips. "Another one breathing down my neck," he thinks. "We'll see about that." He jumps in the driver's seat. She seems startled, tries to leave. "You'll be sorry," he snarls with a smile as he grabs her wrist and starts...