Murdoch's standalone newspaper for the pretty picture box hasn't been a rip-roaring success, so why do you expect yours to be?

This is obviously not the rip-roaring success you imagined it was.

Joe D'Angelo, hi-fi group manager for Teac America Inc., called the Nostalgia products "a rip-roaring, unbelievable success."

The Fes Festival's evening concert at Bab al Makina on Friday was a rip-roaring success, much appreciated by a receptive crowd.

Like, they've tested that theory to destruction in Athens, and that was a rip-roaring success, wasn't it?

A Metro-North spokesman calls the recycling program, which collects four tons of newspapers a day, "a rip-roaring success."

"BMW has survived, but because of the rip-roaring success of the Mini, which Daimler doesn't have."

One might simply note that the Mayes-Halston pairing was "a rip-roaring success," in Mrs. Freedman's words, in Waterford, where a playwrights' conference is the traditional summer lure.

The model, of course, is the Body Shop, a rip-roaring success with 700 bright green stores here and abroad.

You could buy some cheesy, bankrupt sheet, spread the rumor through the red light and Bourse cafes that the backer was Wall Street, and make a rip-roaring success overnight.