Word: rip-off
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...market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans nearly $1 billion annually...
...more well-to-do traveler will want to explore in sunny weather you'll love the rainfor the way it eliminates crowds and guaranteesbetter service(only the cool kids play in the rain). Bring your parka--the ubiquitous black umbrellas on sale at every street corner are a major rip-off; prices swell with the puddles. But careful not to wear a white T-shirt--natives tend to be a little nipple-conscious...
Just Cause," directed by Arne Glimcher ("The Mambo Kings"), starts out looking like a nearly step-by-step rip-off of "True Believer," where James Woods plays a lawyer trying to free a man who has spent eight years in Ossining ('Sing Sing') for a murder he didn't commit. In "Just Cause," James Woods' Eddie Dodd, a washed-up, 1960s hippie lawyer is replaced by Sean Connery's Paul Armstrong, a lawyer-turned-Harvard professor. Neither of the men has tried a murder case in a number of years, both are reluctant to take...
...only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
...Darryl Jones. He seems relegated to the same fold as the usual round of backup vocalists, keyboardists and horn players. It is true that bass was never the glamor solo position in this particular band. The jacket's centerfold portrays a scene of model skeletons that's a direct rip-off from the Black Crowes' second album, "Southern Harmony...