Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomorrow. Tom Snyder is the host for a six-hour Fourth of July celebration. Even if you've had your fill of Snyder and of Bicentennial tripe, you might stay tuned for a bit of local color: in addition to interviews with Jimmy Breslin, Las Vegas tourists and Wernher von Braun, Snyder will talk with "young people at Harvard...
...with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs and orange juice." He happily accepted until he noticed that the raw eggs were in the juice. With this came a bowl of brown soup. What, Robitzer gently inquired, was that? Menudo, was the reply, or tripe soup. Robitzer settled for coffee. Conversation did not come easily in the beginning, but eventually they made a breakthrough. Says Robitzer: "Somehow we managed to talk about everything from police brutality to life in Mexico...
...heroine "derives her identity through her relationships with men. She is prefeminist, confusing libidinal bluntness with liberation." Gould concedes, however, that Jong has helped make headway for women writers. Says she: "It has to be some kind of breakthrough for a woman to cash in on this kind of tripe; men have been doing it for so long...
...Newspapers have the notion that anything the government releases is okay to print," Countryman, who is organizing a letter of protest to The Times, says. "At least newspapers shouldn't print any tripe without checking its accuracy...
...getting the critical attention they deserve, the group no longer seems as innovative, Brian Wilson's musical imagination no longer so unique. Their fans have grown older and want to hear the old stuff again. The young ones are too busy listening to Donny Osmond or some such tripe. The old music was a bit ahead of its time; sadly, the new music is just slightly behind...