Word: ripping
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...those expectations seemed to go awry from the very start of the regular season. First came a devastating 100-63 loss at William and Mary which seemed to rip away any self-esteem that the team might have...
Wechsler likens himself to Rip Van Winkle,although he concedes that his 42-year hiatus hasbeen somewhat longer than the fabled old man'sslumber...
...ascending absurdity): pseudo-intellectual vagrants, these finished in November, and professors who can name every student in lecture. Characters who pass through the Winthrop House gate several times never once emerge in the same place. Granted, Winthrop House is full of quirks, but a gate poised by a rip in the space-time continuum is not, as far as we at Dartboard know, one of them...
...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...
Most of the songs in My favorite Year are blatant rip-offs of other, more famous, numbers from other, better-written, shows. While Flaherty's music is more boring than bad, Ahrens' lyrics are unremittingly awful. The tag line of "Everything Was Beautiful at the Ballet"-- whoops, I mean "Larger than Life"-- for example, is "Gee, he was bigger and better and larger than life." The by-the-numbers finale (called, of course, "My Favorite Year") includes the profound lyric "you could cross a bridge and not have it burn/someone leaving your life could also return...