Word: ripsawing
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...Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen"), he was met with an oblique but sharp rebuff. "I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album must've been," Springsteen speculated at a Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent...
Publishing excerpts from a forthcoming book, Six Seconds in Dallas, the Post can hardly contain its excitement. Calling Author Josiah Thompson, 32, a philosophy teacher at Haverford College, a "warm and engaging idealist with a mind like a ripsaw," Editor Bill Emerson Jr. enthusiastically writes that the book "demolishes" the Warren Commission Report. An equally emotional editorial declares that the details amassed by Thompson "cry out for the truth to be told and for the murderers to be punished...
Flabby characterization doesn't help, but the film's compelling fault is its total lack of tension. Underneath a sometimes-bizarre exterior beats a heart of purest melodrama: will Reason and Humanity save Miller from the whirling ripsaw? The answer is really never in doubt, and melodrama without suspense is like borsht without beets...
...bottle permanently attached to her mouth, and type on the ends of her fingers (no typewriter needed). Raymond Loewy Associates drafted a more efficient streetcar rider. He had a head with a hook for straphanging, and a spiked nose to hold newspapers. Another idea: an efficient carpenter with a ripsaw nose, who merely plugged his head in to the nearest light socket, so he couldn't forget his tools...
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