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...this unbridled orgy of greed and speculation. If the bubble bursts and hundreds of millions lose their life savings and jobs, taxpayers and investors won't choose to put future generations in debt to pay off this financial scandal, which will make the cost of the savings and loan rip-off look like petty cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Financial Markets | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

What is the Lynx? Is it a wildcat with tufted ears? Is it a failed Atari rip-off of Nintendo's Game Boy? Or is it the newest entry into Harvard's late-night club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lynx Continues An Elitist Tradition | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...Interesting," said Blakey, tapping his toes. "But a total rip-off. That part in the beginning -- it's from A Night in Birdland, Vol. 1, by my own quintet. And then it flows into excerpts from Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap's New Jazz Messengers Us | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...crispy on the outside. Very rich. This cookie is "moist and plump," "greasy," and "heavy," "a lot of butter." "Just a gosh darn good cookie." Very straightforward, no nonsense. ValueA fair deal at $.35 per ounce. It's bargain, $.22 per ounce. A fair deal. $.33 per ounce. A rip-off. $.50 per ounce. Fair deal. $.34 per ounce. The Verdict This is definitely a chocolate lover's cookie, not a chocolate chip cookie lover's cookie. "It's Keebler wannabe." "Where are the elves?" Here we have a Cookie Identity Crisis. This sample vascillates between chocolate chip and oatmeal...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Smart Cookies | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...luminaries, including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Harold Brodkey, Alison Lurie, Robert Bly and Robert Creeley. By sophomore year O'Hara and Edward Gorey, his roommate at Eliot House, occupied the center of a flourishing artistic and social scene whose campy, brittle style was a bald rip-off of Oscar Wilde and characters out of Evelyn Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Parties and Poetry | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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