Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 400,000 copies of VisiCalc have been sold (retail price: $200 and up, depending on the version), making it the hottest piece of software, other than games, ever produce for the personal computer. It is also probably the most widely pirated and imitated (the rip-offs are nicknamed "VisiClones" and "CalcAlikes"). Sighs Bricklin: "I suppose if imitation is flattery, we've been flattered quite a bit." Headquartered in a refurbished chocolate factory in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Mass., Bricklin's firm, Software Arts, now has more than 80 employees, as many computer terminals as phones...
Though Perkins is sure to learn how it was in Green Bay for Phil Bengston, who replaced Vince Lombardi, he is more inclined to consider Penn State's Joe Paterno, and how seldom Paterno is compared to Rip Engle any more. Anyway, Perkins leaped from the New York Giants for the job of his dreams, while the New York opening accommodated the fantasies of Bill Parcells, an assistant coach born a Giant fan in New Jersey. It seemed that everyone's hopes were seen to, except the Bear...
...movies crafted to set off the talents of stars who may be big shots in some other medium, but don't know the tricks of the movie trade. In this instance, the victim is Bette Midler, getting by as usual on brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing...
Final question: Does Rip Torn save the show...
...Rip Torn nicely captures the brash vulgarly of Howard, but he is only really comfortable after the murder, when, a Howard's corpse, he no longer has to deal with the film's wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...