Word: rip
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Despite getting in trouble with MasterCard this summer, Nader rips off another Madison Avenue standard - the Monster.com ad with all the little kids (itself a rip-off of those sanctimonious International Paper spots). "I want to vote for the lesser of two evils... I want to be disillusioned... I want the government to ignore me." Funny stuff from a man who if you turn him off after five minutes can leave a very deep impression...
...Fanning's self-portrait as a poor, starving code renegade, the fact remains that his company is a well-financed corporate entity. If you take away the glamour of computer-era hype, what Fanning has done is not new: from the Tin Pan Alley days, businesspeople have sought to rip off artists for profit. But things have progressed. Song sharks used to be small-time hustlers; today they are glorified on the cover of TIME magazine. ERIC VINCENT Philadelphia...
...GIRL: Alejandra Casillas '01 and the girls of Lowell K-32... For making dorm room parties cool again. Their Jungle Boogie was a rip-roaring, sweltering extravaganza-so exclusive and so well-handled that one overwhelmed guest exclaimed, "This is a who's who of Harvard...
...film school days as a joke on the pretentious art world of cinema. It is this irony that many viewers find sadistic and alienating in his work, and their cinematic experience turns cold and angry. But even though von Trier makes you want to throw your popcorn or rip your ticket, I think there is something valuable underneath this so-called charlatan's grin and captured in the lens of his camera...
...ultimately this one play that decided the outcome of Saturday's match, allowing Skumawitz to rip off his jersey in glory and causing Mejias to rip off his jersey in agony...