Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...elsewhere, the smugglers are well organized and lavishly financed. "They are better equipped than we are," says Jack Redford of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's hard to beat the cash flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...
...tangled relationships to one conversation, Mamet has chopped out parts of the afternoon by periodically fading out the stage lights. Mamet meagerly doles out the snips of dialogue between fadeouts, but the impact of each line becomes tremendous. The characters do not merely bounce lines off each other, they rip savagely but subtly at each other's hearts, rending them with tense words and rebuilding cautiously and slowly at the same time. "I never had a father...it's my right, isn't it. Isn't it?" the daughter demands, unassailable in her emotion, inconsolable in her situation. "There...
Jackson's lyrics have become even more pessimistic. He was content to rip apart "Sunday Papers" on his first 1.p., but here he explores deeper social problems. Misfits, racial tensions, and uncontrollable fate, all these have been boiling under his pop songs, but he had to recreate his musical genre to find proper release for them...
...second position, junior Chip Robie, one of five veterans from last year's title crew, survived a first-game scare to rip past Army's Joe Berkoff...
Boston's school bus drivers--on strike since October 9--Sunday announced a national boycott of ARA Services, Inc., saying the bus company has "come to Boston to rip off the communities and workers...