Word: rip-off
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...anyone noticed that the Harvard Film Archive raised its student admission fee to $5? What a rip-off. The screen is too small and the films are, in general, too old to be charging almost as much as Sony Harvard Square...
...BODICE RIP-OFF A Tale of Stolen Words...
...Sierra Madre knows, gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses are a rip-off, a scheme by the mining conglomerate to sell real estate that it knows will be worthless when the mine's exhausted. "Seven years from now that whole hill might be deserted...
...like the fact that they're live and they can play their instruments. I like the fact that they honor us by using us as their source, so it's a tribute. I certainly don't go the direction some people go and say, 'Oh, it's just a rip-off, they're no good.' I think they're good. The worst I could say about them is their stuff is derivative. [But] when I started off, I sang like Little Richard. I still do...John was coming from Buddy Holly and the Isley Brothers, various other people. So what...
...hope the investors who were unfortunate enough to own Bre-X Minerals shares [BUSINESS, May 19] followed the ever important rule: diversify. I can't wait for the book or, better yet, the movie about this rip-off. BRIAN VAN LEEUWEN Albuquerque...