Word: rip-off
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Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...
...college students play poker, and having the chance to win something free, while playing something they enjoy, is tempting,” He does not plan to participate in the promotion, Tobe said. Bobby C. Spang ’09 said that he feared the tournament could be a rip-off, with many players and few winners. “I feel like the site just wants to get people hooked on playing,” said Spang, who said he plays poker but has scaled back significantly during the school year because of work. “It seems...
...It’s nothing new—one part “Lose Control,” one part “Lose My Breath,” and one part “Tricky.” LL and Jermaine engage in rhyme-scheme and sound-scape rip-off so blatant that it simultaneously makes the listener forget the former’s significant contributions to hip-hop while somehow also eclipsing the mountain of crap that the latter has produced. Poor J-Lo is stuck in the middle (literally—the video splits LL?...
...OLYMPICS IT AIN'T--although it does have former decathlete Bruce Jenner. But Fox's rip-off of Dancing with the Stars far outdoes its ballroom model. The irresistible cornpone of a celebrity skate-off, it turns out, is not that different from the irresistible cornpone of a legitimate skating match. But there are also earnest moments, as when NFL on Fox weather babe Jillian Barberie, pictured--the competition's ringer--revealed that she has dreamed of spangle-costumed skating glory since she was a girl. Plus, we got to see Full House's Dave Coulier skate in a dress...
...worst of Bobby Digital-era RZA, despite what the over-excited liner notes (“Bronze’s beats are all like Rza’s sound!!”) may claim. The beat to “Cars on the Interstate” is a complete rip-off of “Bring The Pain,” Method Man’s devastating classic from 1994, and serves only to rekindle nostalgia for Shaolin glory days.Thrown on top of these comatose beats are performances by about a thousand other underground rappers, including decent verses from...