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...started with the thunder of hooves. Spurred by the cavalry - 120 Akubraed riders, including Paul Hogan - the Opening Ceremonies were a rip-snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when...
...latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even in the mid-'90s, when faster computers and high-bandwidth connections to the Internet made it possible to seek and find MP3 files, ripping CDs was a tedious process...
...sandwich is an Aussie favorite. Damper bread is a source of native pride. McDonald's managed to insult both. The official restaurant of the 2000 Games took exception to an Olympic Park restaurant's putting an egg-and-bacon damper sandwich on its menu. Calling it an Egg McMuffin rip-off, the double-arched bully demanded that the homegrown dish be banned. A compromise was struck; the offending sandwich will be served on hot-dog buns. Corporate muscle, 1; indigenous cuisine...
...sluggish, often dim-witted action picture that wasn't even as enjoyable as the first Mission: Impossible. What happened? Well, you can start with the fact that Robert Towne, the man wrote Chinatown for God's sake, was apparently uninspired to do anything more with the screenplay than rip off Notorious and throw in a limp virus thriller. Then you can blame Tom Cruise, who, despite his rogue's haircut, is stuck in extra-bland mode as superagent Ethan Hunt (when the Cruise mask is ripped off in the opening sequence, I was praying Chow Yun-Fat and his charisma...
...part of his day completely open, so a surprise arrival isn't out of the question. Hillary may be hoping her husband stays in Washington; whatever psychological support gained from his presence could be overshadowed by the nagging fear that he'd be tempted to leap onto the stage, rip the microphone from her hands and launch into a diatribe detailing his own accomplishments...