Word: rips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intentional homage, subconscious emulation or calculated rip-off? For Selle's suit against the Bee Gees, four bars of the two scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
...plunge made Wall Street veterans grab for their rip cords. "I've never seen a stock fall that far, that fast," said Barry Bryant, a retail analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert. "This is a decline that leaves you gasping." Only a month ago Gap Inc., owner of the Gap, GapKids and the Banana Republic clothing chains, had been one of the stock market's highest flyers. But from an August peak of 77 7/8, the stock sank to 37 early last week, down 52%. That included a 10 1/4-point drop last Monday alone...
...Colino decide to rip off his employer? A former Comsat associate describes Colino as "ambitious and manipulative" and bitter at not advancing more rapidly earlier in his career. An associate in Intelsat speculates that Colino thought he would make the organization "grow so fast they wouldn't miss the money." But they did, and a promising career self-destructed...
...caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally, underdeveloped dramatically. The picture is plenty handsome, and Glenne Headly and Rip Torn have some fun as a lost lady and the meanest guy in Austin, Texas. Still, Nadine, an agreeable entertainment, is a disappointment from a fine filmmaker. This shaggy tale of his native state has a place in Benton's heart...
...first displays of rock talent occur, fittingly, in a redneck bar and an American Legion Hall. Ritchie also misses no opportunity to brag of his ignorance of Spanish. He only learns his parents' tongue so that he can rip off a Mexican folksong, jazz it up with a rock beat, and make millions...