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" Jobs cribbed from the Whole Earth Catalog: "Stay hungry.
I began with some moves cribbed from Japanese Zen masters.
Facebook has also cribbed features from Foursquare, Twitter and Vine.
This might sound like alarmist hyperbole cribbed from an episode
Lucas isn't the only artist who has cribbed from them.
To do this, they cribbed from Breaking Bad, of all things.
There were also set pieces cribbed from earlier performances of theirs.
The president's submission gives a particularly cribbed account of Sondland's House testimony.
Different settings clash, while gameplay elements cribbed from other titles are jammed together.
Manafort said the words Melania used were not "cribbed" but are common words.
"Yes, fine, I may have cribbed a little bit from Westworld," he confesses.
Buckley, however, squashed any notion the alleged cribbed line was taken without authorization.
Together, Trump and Bannon successfully cribbed several big themes from Nixon's campaign playbook.
Let me remind you, Tesla's Model whatever naming template was cribbed from Ford anyhow.
He delivered his scripts in a staccato monotone that sounded cribbed from the nightly news.
The show's first story arc could almost have been cribbed directly from the original series.
And she never cribbed from another speech without acknowledging that she was quoting somebody else.
However, the sculptural lines of the rear, though, were cribbed from the all-new DB11.
In implementing this law, California largely cribbed from similar legislation in Oregon, Vermont and Washington.
Each driver's name could easily be cribbed from a Key and Peele College Bowl sketch.
Sometimes people came with outlandish plans for murder or maiming, seemingly cribbed from Hollywood thrillers.
Also noteworthy is the similar aesthetic style cribbed from comic book illustrations of the 1990s.
Last year they cribbed from the diving bell spider; the year before that, a flying beetle.
But because so much of this was cribbed from Democrats, this can also be easily counteracted.
Andrew later emailed me to clarify the search is fictional and the narrative cribbed from L'Homme.
It was a defiant speech, but also a wholly unoriginal one cribbed from his dad's worldview.
So, there you go, Instagram: Two easy product updates cribbed directly from your big brother Facebook.
The bridge consisted of lines he'd cribbed from think pieces about him—a weird decision, too.
Instagram's whole Stories feature was cloned from Snapchat, and it also cribbed Q&A Stories from Polly.
The company describes it as an "infinite canvas," in a phrase cribbed from comics theorist, Scott McCloud.
Some of the Russian propaganda on social media was cribbed from content that was posted by Americans.
Reid, who cribbed his questionably-spelled nickname "Reidernater" from Schwarzenegger, gushes to me about his Austrian idol.
Maybe next time you should think up a tactic that doesn't seem cribbed from a terrible Caddyshack reboot.
That brawl is just one of numerous scenes Tomb Raider's screenwriters cribbed almost directly from the 20133 game.
Unless you're part of the Trump campaign, which maintained yesterday that nope, no words were cribbed from Obama.
A string of Pop-Tart ads cribbed his stick-figure aesthetic and dark humor in the mid-aughts.
She does a pole dance for puppet rabbits and came in with some moves she cribbed off YouTube.
The most important question was one I cribbed from Ezekiel Emanuel: How many times have you done this surgery?
But I'd rather that the administration's ideas be fully thought out than be cribbed from a morning TV show.
We'd still be debating the Melania's Cribbed Quotes crisis if a hitherto unknown Trump employee hadn't finally taken responsibility.
He was shot, again and again, coming down a gleaming escalator, an image he cribbed for his campaign kickoff.
But the language he's using this time around sounds like it's cribbed straight from the playbook of Vermont Sen.
She ran rehearsals at her apartment and conscripted the cast into awkward dance parties (a trick cribbed from Mills).
Let's ease into the new week with the most famous version of the Pete Seeger song cribbed from Ecclesiastes.
Sorry, I mean Jeffrey — but, like much of the play, the character is cribbed, badly, from the "Friends" template.
The piece reads like a masters-level essay on classical aesthetics cribbed from a bunch of wrongheaded Wikipedia entries.
Again, much of this is likely cribbed from the old Hollywood films creator Amy Sherman-Palladino used as inspiration.
Most of the substantive expert commentary is cribbed from public speeches by technology critics like Jaron Lanier and Tristan Harris.
Some of the points it made were pretty facile; some quoted sources, and some were pretty clearly cribbed from articles.
These artists renderings were cribbed not only from Charcot's observations, but from representations of religious ecstasy in early medieval art.
It's unclear exactly why Apple cribbed its own design, though the company has said this is a design people loved.
He's cribbed it from his David Tanis Market Cooking: Recipes and Revelations, Ingredient by Ingredient, released last month from Artisan.
The similarities are so blatant it's hard to argue that a portion of the speech wasn't cribbed from Michelle Obama's.
Judging by the trailer, the definition of "millennial" that the show's writers are using was cribbed from bad Facebook memes.
That the scene had cribbed Native culture to serve as a plot point is typical of the American film industry.
Or this one, cribbed from YouTube: One solution Twitter is exploring is to surround false tweets with factual context, Dorsey said.
With this idealized woman up upon his pedestal, Prince evokes literal apocalyptic sentiments, seemingly cribbed from his Seventh-day Adventist faith.
Now, the competition is heating up, with an accusation by Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano that Hims cribbed part of Ro's website.
That was cribbed from the menu at Lafayette, the first New York restaurant run by Vongerichten, which he left in 183.
Like it has done so many times before, Apple cribbed the idea and made it even better on the iPhone 11.
For the past few years, Beyoncé has increasingly cribbed from the iconography of classical Western art in her own image-making.
The food, a lot of it cribbed from the pages of our cookbook, was obviously divine; the people, somehow, made it better.
This recipe, cribbed from one in The Post archives from 03, is very much like what you might find served in Switzerland.
After a brief introductory video cribbed mostly from Ocarina of Time, we were asked to figure out various word games and mazes.
Other iOS cribbed features include Screen Time, iMessage effects and Siri shortcuts, along with updates to a handful of existing Mac apps.
They went over various ideas: Iantorno suggested floating Wi-Fi rigged balloons over the city, an idea cribbed from Google's Project Loon.
For one thing, she or her speechwriter appears to have cribbed a whole paragraph from Michelle Obama's Democratic convention speech from 2008.
The line had been cribbed from The Root's Michael Harriot, who had published a post by the same name the previous evening.
This was, in part, cribbed from other folks who defended Cosby long after his cries of innocence defied the bounds of credulity.
But too much of Life is nakedly cribbed from a better movie, and too much of it is inherently self-important and silly.
Increasingly, training is incorporating ways for bystanders to take action if they witness harassment, a concept cribbed from college sexual assault prevention efforts.
"There's plenty more — enormous factual errors, other cribbed passages, single or unsourced claims — but this should give a sense," Moynihan wrote on Twitter.
Could one of the great songwriting duos of the century have cribbed their greatest hit from an act few have ever heard of?
This feature was cribbed from Sony's professional A9 and A7R Mark IV mirrorless cameras, and it's a welcome feature in this tiny body.
He posts images cribbed from the weirder reaches of social media, curious relics from 1980s and 90s meathead culture, and loads of non sequiturs.
Instead, she offers up a pointless car chase and a shopping scene cribbed from Dawn of the Dead that goes on for a while.
An American misfit teenager named Sean (Lucas Black) goes to live in a version of Japan that seems cribbed from a Carmen Sandiego game.
The steering wheel looks cribbed from the brand's NSX supercar, while the speaker covers in the door panels have been carved from exotic wood.
The complaint filed by Nikola lays out a number of claims that, viewed together, the company says prove Tesla cribbed from the startup's patents.
That starts with a name and design that's supposed to appeal to younger web users, with visual cues cribbed from the likes of Mic.
Washington (CNN)A White House statement congratulating ExxonMobil for increasing investment in Texas and Louisiana cribbed multiple lines from the oil giant's statement without citation.
It's widely ridiculed as one of the bigger fails in sports business, even though a handful of its elements were later cribbed by the NFL.
Since Schwartz's stories were always extremely short and were cribbed from already existing urban legends, I imagine the script's story is original to the film.
And I wouldn't go so far as to claim that the passages apparently cribbed from Michelle Obama's speech rise to the level of deathless eloquence.
Some fish-out-of-water humor sequences feel like they were cribbed from the wacky time-travel adventures of Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home.
While other games borrowed from war, crime, and sci-fi cinema, Uncharted cribbed liberally from the action serials produced at Republic Pictures in the 1930s.
With movement styles often cribbed from nature, these robots can sidestep stubborn challenges for more traditional robots, made with steel and motors, in developing movement.
Every part of the headset is loosely cribbed from familiar soft goods: ski goggles, shoes, T-shirts, jackets, and even things like tents and kites.
"This plan seems cribbed," said Leah Stokes, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate policy.
For Burke, a businesswoman with no experience in elected office, the cribbed jobs plan solidified "the impression that she is the pyrite candidate," Schneider wrote.
The festival was marketed by Jerry Media, an online advertising agency that began as a popular Instagram account that cribbed other peoples' memes without credit.
Today, Kohl's launched K/lab, a very right-this-minute collection that's basically cribbed from your Instagram feed and created via an ultra-accelerated production cycle.
Fleck's speech, with its complaints about how "everybody just yells and screams at each other" and "nobody's civil anymore," just seems cribbed from political think pieces.
Drake recently cribbed these influences to large popularity— so much so that some of our American neighbours have come to believe it's a dialect he created.
Mind you, Google is already having plenty of trouble meeting the lofty goals it cribbed from Gaikai, breaking many of the promises it made before launch.
In the slides, Facebook defines white nationalism as ideology that "seeks to develop and maintain a white national identity," which is a definition cribbed from Wikipedia.
Robinhood even had to send a cease-and-desist to "Cobinhood", a competing crypto trading app that cribbed its name and raised $10 million in an ICO.
The earlier Tekken games were hyper-stylized and cribbed liberally from kung fu films and television; developers paid less attention to this current sort of cultural matching.
She was burned after parts of her speech at the Republican National Convention were revealed to have been cribbed from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech.
He spent the other week trying to get PewDiePie defenders to pressure the WSJ's advertisers into pulling their support, a tactic he no doubt cribbed from GamerGate.
Clinton cribbed one of Sanders' campaign-trail tactics when a graduate student asked about student loans -- asking the woman to share out loud how much she owed.
After a Twitter user discovered the plagiarism, the story of the cribbed lines hung over the convention and eclipsed the otherwise positive response to Ms. Trump's speech.
Cribbed from Mr. Obama's speech as he awarded Mr. Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, it links Mr. Biden to some of the Obama administration's signature achievements.
It's slightly facile to claim that weapon customization is merely a clever bit of marketing cribbed from the gun industry, but the similarities are hard to ignore.
As you'd expect, they've cribbed from the aggressive public education and legislation that cut the number of DUI fatalities by more than 50 percent between 1982 and 2014.
Sachs told me he'd cribbed construction ideas from MythBusters Now he uses my workshop when he's on the West Coast, and I use his when I'm back east.
This courthouse, like half a dozen others around China, is an almost exact replica of the Washington, D.C. landmark, with a few flourishes cribbed from the White House.
Instead, it was a speech full of pro-American rhetoric underwritten with good-wife devotion --with some of its strongest and most heartfelt-seeming passages cribbed, to boot.
Days before the hammer fell, however, reports slowly trickled in that Obvious may have cribbed its code from 10-year-old artist and high school graduate Robbie Barrat.
Performed for two audiences as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, this adaptation encompasses the first act, plus a few bits cribbed from the last.
But while the congressman's tactics to release classified information feel cribbed from the pro-Trump media playbook, Nunes appears to have made a crucial mistake: actually releasing the memo.
Mr. Dylan may have cribbed the first line from the traditional English folk song "Go Away From My Window," recorded by Jeannie Robertson and John Jacob Niles, among others.
But the surprisingly ambitious, if "cribbed," plan makes it clear that while climate was largely ignored in 2016, it's going to be on the forefront of the 2020 campaign.
You know he means it too: nobody uses an acoustic guitar line that sounds like it was cribbed from a Taking Back Sunday session unless they're truly in their feelings.
The Order has amassed power not just through conventional means, but with magic spells that sound like they've been cribbed from Harry Potter, and Edward is the organization's Grand Magus.
The budget request, hurriedly cribbed from a right-wing think tank's vision for limited government, was dead on arrival in Congress and so is best seen as a red herring.
But he had to know that this type of humor was, at best cribbed from some of the most hateful corners of the internet and at worse pandering to them.
With his campaign appearing in disarray after his wife, Melania, delivered a convention speech cribbed in part from one once given by Michelle Obama, Mr. Trump officially claimed the nomination.
While Uber's rewards are more predictable and automatic, it does seem to have cribbed Grab's rewards period mechanic where you keep your perks through the end of the next cycle.
" Hof has, in fact, largely cribbed his electoral style from Trump — not only dubbing himself the "Trump from Pahrump" but also writing a book called "The Art of the Pimp.
It looked like a panel cribbed from a Stan Lee comic: the Titans running back beating all 11 Patriots to the edge, pushing forward with a full head of steam.
The condiment brand plans to run a set of billboards and print ads cribbed from a pitch Don Draper made to a fictionalized version of the company in the AMC series.
Joe Biden once spoke in favor of the myth of "clean coal," so how much should we read into the fact that his campaign website cribbed language from the coal industry?
There were plenty of bits to get a decent and unimaginative man riled up—rituals cribbed from Anton LeVay, drug use both simulated and actual, violence, and plenty of fake blood.
Even features like Digital Touch, cribbed from the Apple Watch, which lets you send sketches and heartbeats to people is more useful in iOS 210 than on the smaller smartwatch screen.
Asked to weigh in on the longtime debate over whether Microsoft copied Apple, Bill Gates said Monday that both companies really cribbed off industry pioneer Xerox, which developed the graphical interface.
Notably, President Xi followed Mr. Trump's hostile speech with a paean to open markets, fair commerce and the benefits of globalization, ideas that might have been cribbed from previous American presidents.
You see him combining truthful observation and lyrical color and light with painterly effects, often in the rendering of foliage, that seem cribbed from European precedents without being quite understood technically.
Now there are a lot of great Windows 10 laptops available, many of which have cribbed the ideas first demonstrated on the XPS 13, like its compact size and almost borderless display.
Now there are a lot of great Windows 23 laptops available, many of which have cribbed the ideas first demonstrated on the XPS 13, like its compact size and almost borderless display.
"C'mon, aren't you a little bit curious to watch the world burn?" sneers one revealed villain toward the end of the film, in a line that's mostly cribbed from Heath Ledger's Joker.
Soon enough, the Underwood lackey is confessing to a crime he didn't commit — all because of fake information Sean cribbed off of a device he was never supposed to be looking at.
Chief among the culprits here are fast-fashion businesses like Zara and H&M, which flood their stores with a constantly renewed selection of cheaply manufactured styles cribbed from high-end designers.
Otherwise, however, Note 9 reports paint a picture of fairly minor upgrades over the Note 8, with plenty of features cribbed from the S9 announced back in February at Mobile World Congress.
He automatically takes the title here, and not just because of the shot of him brooding at night that seems cribbed straight from The OC. It all comes down to his haircuts.
One of the biggest stories from this week's Republican National Convention has been news that Melania Trump, Republican nominee Donald Trump's wife, cribbed part of her opening night speech from Michelle Obama.
For instance, for "Bennington," she cribbed photographic images of the buildings at the site (originally taken with a fisheye lens) and transferred them, using carbon paper and onion skin, into her landscape.
Her speech sparked a scandal, after people noted that portions of the speech seemed to have been cribbed directly from former first lady Michelle Obama's address during the 03 Democratic National Convention.
" The book ends with the beautiful sentiment, cribbed from an email Chee wrote his students after the election of Donald Trump, that "a novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.
According to Ezra Callahan, an early product manager and one of the company's first 2396 employees, it was allowing people to post text status messages — an idea cribbed from Twitter in 22.
The all-new four-seat sequel is much sleeker, though, with a rear fly line cribbed from the 212.3 (an element I heard a Bugatti designer praise as a work of art).
Nowhere is this better exemplified than in a 2013 Today Show appearance by entrepreneur Brit Morin in which all of the life hacks she shared appeared to be cribbed from other websites.
He spends large amounts of stage time describing the technical features of his microphone, or running the audience through the finer points of his lyrics, many of which have been cribbed off Wikipedia.
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Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status, two ephemeral messaging products Facebook largely cribbed from Snapchat, have both now surpassed 300 million monthly active users, making them almost twice as popular as all of Snapchat.
Meanwhile, it started to sink in that it was not only Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech that Melania had cribbed, it was a passage devoted to the virtues of hard work and honesty.
Its most colorful sequence, with the high-speed Quicksilver (Evan Peters) casually toying with the slowpoke world around him, is directly cribbed from Days Of Future Past, but with less-convincing special effects.
This is a first-person account of statelessness made with an eye for striking scenes — not something that could have been put together by anyone who cribbed material from publicly available news sources.
Critic's Pick In the South African crime thriller "Number 37," a desperate paraplegic and a pair of binoculars propel a plot cribbed from Hitchcock's "Rear Window" yet crackling with its own lowlife energy.
Many of the policy proposals in the Trump administration's budget are cribbed from earlier proposals crafted by Hill Republicans, including the Medicaid cuts that were part of the House GOP health care overhaul. 3.
I keep thinking about the title of a Flannery O'Connor short story, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," which was cribbed from a quote by the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
While the show's animation style ebbed toward that of Cartoon Network hits like The Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack, the characters' fashion sense could have been cribbed directly from the emo article in Seventeen.
The title, "The Idiot" — as with "The Possessed," cribbed from Dostoyevsky — seems like an unfair indictment of gentle, hardworking Selin, but at its root, "idiot" is a benign word, even a strangely sweet one.
Swartz's actions require context, of course, but the writer who promises a dispatch from the digital frontier and instead delivers a cribbed history of the Post Office Act of 1792 has surely lost his way.
The original Surface product ran a stripped down version of Windows 8 called Windows RT. Much like that dead OS, Windows 10 S is cribbed to allow for a higher performance from lower-end hardware.
Early recipes were most likely cribbed from Isabella Beeton's 1861 "Book of Household Management," which included instructions for curried beef, doused with a "wineglassful" of beer, and curried veal, with an addendum of fried apples.
The template for Made in China 2025 was cribbed from a German government plan called Industrie 4.0, which calls for greater automation and the growing use of "smart factories" doing sophisticated work with fewer people.
The tribe filed a lawsuit in New Mexico in March 2012 over the cultural appropriation of its name and aesthetic, after concerns were first raised over the striking similarities (and cribbed moniker) back in October 2011.
" Abrams' approach to the task Disney had set before him seemed cribbed from the teachings of the great Jedi grandmaster Yoda, who counseled Anakin to "train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
"In order to experience joy you need pain," he tells her, having apparently cribbed that line from a Chicken Soup for the Soul book he found in the backseat of the Lyft he took over here.
In between trafficking hoaxes such as Hillary Clinton having a serious gum disease or that E. Jean Carroll cribbed her Trump rape allegation from Law & Order, Hoft made an appearance in the White House Briefing Room.
It's effective, largely because little gets in the way, not even French Montana's craven pilfering of early G-funk (a lyric cribbed from Dr. Dre's "Dre Day," a beat switch to Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Serial Killa").
"There have been other instances where graffiti artists have been recognized as deserving protection," Mr. Nicyper said, adding that courts have ruled that clothing designers who cribbed ideas from graffiti artists were liable for intellectual theft.
" By association, even men were at risk, as when Arthur Danto said of Morris Louis's poured paintings known as "Veils" — famously cribbed from Frankenthaler — that viewing them was like "walking through racks of negligees at Bendels.
But plot alone can't explain why we return to "Rebecca," which even its most fervent fans will admit is cribbed from "Jane Eyre" (mousy heroine, aloof love interest, his inconvenient first wife, a very convenient fire).
Holding court as the president beamed from the other side of the Resolute Desk, West delivered a lengthy monologue cribbed from the "Recommended Next" algorithm that kicks in at the end of any Jordan Peterson YouTube video.
Unlike your standard Stories feature, which Facebook initially cribbed from Snapchat for use on Instagram to help it become exceptionally more popular, this specific implementation is designed to share the details of an event with your friends.
All of the most daring things about the film — DeBlois' willingness to spend long segments on wordless sky-dancing or explore some of the painful processes of finding an adult identity — feel directly cribbed from other movies.
Now, let's get one thing straight: We're used to seeing Zara release designs that are eerily similar to those from high-end designers — but seeing work cribbed from an indie illustrator just rubs us the wrong way.
The list, which BuzzFeed reported was partially cribbed from an existing list in Forbes Magazine, included political figures with ties to Putin like his chief spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
There are also the tales that Paul Heyman, upon selling ECW and joining WWE, wanted to launch a show centering on a worked shoot—read: fake but heavily underpinned by reality—style of wrestling cribbed from UFC.
We meet the French ornithologist François Levaillant, who cribbed some illustrations for his "Natural History of the Birds of Africa (1805-08)" from other sources, and incompetently (or deviously?) included numerous species not found on the continent.
Eggers—who co-wrote the script with his brother, Max—peppered the film with real lines cribbed from historical texts, borrowing antiquated, salty sea-dog dialogue from Herman Melville and actual lighthouse keepers's journals from the time.
Pratik Sinha, of Alt News, pointed out that photos claiming to depict dead Pakistani militants actually showed victims of a heat wave; other images, ostensibly of the strikes, were cribbed from a video game called Arma 2.
His manifesto not only refers to the online postings of the New Zealand shooting and of the man who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, but seems almost cribbed from past white nationalist rants.
There are a couple new features that have been cribbed from other devices or third-party apps, such as the new nighttime display mode similar to Apple's Night Shift that can be triggered based on sunrise and sunset.
If, in this crowded field of TV programming, it eventually achieves cult status, how amazing would it be to see Shadowhunters quotes slyly cribbed for fanfic one day — then, we're pretty sure everyone would live happily ever after.
Today he's just a sleazy oldster, but in the beginning he was a faux philosopher, preaching a gospel cribbed from bohemia and various Freudian enemies of repression, in which the blessed pursuit of promiscuity was the human birthright.
A PowerPoint presentation for the day's morning briefing, which I obtained with a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that there was just one slide about the Swedish case; it had four bullet points—all cribbed from Reuters.
After a month of rumors, leaks, and vague details cribbed from Korean websites, Netflix has finally released the first official trailer for the upcoming Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch—and the thing looks like a complete and utter mindfuck.
" And the script we have inherited when it comes to infidelity is pitifully narrow, its language cribbed from addiction and criminalization: "Clinicians often label the faithful spouse as the 'injured party' and the unfaithful one as the 'perpetrator.
Like so many features that have found their way into Instagram in recent years, the creeper warning was cribbed from Snapchat, which alerts users when a photo or video from their story was saved for posterity in a screenshot.
It's also no secret that Facebook is using Live as one of its many anti-Snapchat tools — many of the newest and most familiar features of Live, like live masks and other video filters, were cribbed directly from Snapchat.
Mr. Biden's campaign, which has more than $735,000 on air over the next two weeks in a state it has staked its future on, cribbed its ad from the ceremony where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He worshipped Ralph Steadman and sent him a letter asking him whether he'd consider collaborating on a book (as a teenager, Levy had read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and cribbed the drawings to pass an art test).
Preston is a man who cribbed his band name from a Morrissey song, lyrically references The Smiths in The Ordinary Boys' most (only?) famous banger (still bangs tbh) and is at least partially responsible for letting Olly Murs happen.
" Democrats cribbed the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate from conservatives—who devised it to prevent free-riding in the insurance market—to such an extent that its provisions are spelled out in law under the heading of "individual responsibility.
The Trump campaign grappled with accusations that Melania Trump cribbed from Michelle Obama's 2008 remarks to Democrats, and Senator Ted Cruz thumbed his nose at Mr. Trump by refusing to endorse him until he was booed off the stage.
Beyoncé has restaged well-known works: "Hold Up" paid tribute (or just cribbed) the light-footed feminism of the Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist, while "Countdown" channeled the precise dance moves of another Belgian choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Another guest, a rabbi, eagerly fills the void and gives a beautiful interpretation of God's creation of the seventh day, cribbed from Abraham Joshua Heschel, arguing that the Sabbath was meant to be recreated, by man, again and again.
But in a statement issued minutes before midnight Monday, Trump's Treasury Department, instead, apparently cribbed from Forbes magazine's list of Russian oligarchs, and published it wholesale alongside an indiscriminate laundry list of senior officials who work inside the Kremlin.
In the past, Huawei has often cribbed aspects of iPhone aesthetics, but this time, it seems Huawei was inspired by Samsung, because aside from their notches Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro look and feel quite similar to a Galaxy S9.
While most of the action happens on the Salvare, the show periodically returns to Earth, where Niko's husband, Erik Wallace (Justin Chatwin), is trying to communicate with the aliens in a manner cribbed straight from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Obviously, directors are paying homage to other directors when "copying" these scenes (Tarantino, anyone?), but it's fun to find out how some iconic moments in film history were just cribbed off some little movie most people never heard of before.
There were also a lot of technical glitches inside the arena, some questionable musical choices, and a night-long theme — "Make America First Again" — cribbed from a decades-old group dedicated to the proposition that the United States shouldn't fight Hitler.
That's not a sentence cribbed from an entry-level handbook on character creation: it's a description of the lead role Josh Hutcherson's going to play in Future Man, a comedy Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg are developing for Hulu.
Lenovo even cribbed a bit of Google's style with the Smart Clock sporting a simple design with friendly rounded edges and a gray mesh fabric that looks and feels quite similar to what you'd find on a homegrown Google Home device.
READ: Catch up on the entire Trump-Russia scandal in just 6 minutes During the summer of the 2016 election, Trump badly cribbed Schweizer's reporting and wrongly suggested that the Russians had paid Clinton to support their takeover of Uranium One.
You can hear a few musical flourishes cribbed from his playbook if you listen closely: the piano figure at the end of "Comfortable" is pure Noah "40" Shebib, and the throbbing "Good Girls" sounds like a caffeinated Thank Me Later outtake.
Resembling the German model so closely that whole passages appear to have been cribbed from it, the Russian law requires social networks to pay steep fines if they fail to remove banned content, not just hate speech, within 24 hours.
Real Engineering explains how centrifugal force works as artificial gravity and estimates (using math cribbed from how much the ISS costs) the cost needed to build it: only around five trillion dollars and 10 years of the world's total aluminum production.
That means that part of the blowback from scooter companies has to do with how they cribbed, in part, from the playbook of Facebook and more prominently from the playbook of Uber and Lyft, by dumping electric vehicles into city streets without permission.
Having a noted aversion to not being the sole focus of the media's attention, Trump lurched into the fray Sunday morning with a fistful of racial stereotypes that could have been easily cribbed from the pages of a Ku Klux Klan manifesto.
In "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," her first full-length play (with a title cribbed from Kant), two characters greet each other, sit in awkward silence, admit they don't know what they're supposed to be doing and walk off the stage.
From a distance, the high-gloss, virtuosic enamel paintings look like Thomas Kinkade landscapes mixed with Hieronymus Bosch scenarios: pretty, anodyne landscapes peppered with apocalyptic micro-hells in which mythic demons cribbed from traditions in Mr. Shaw's native Kashmir battle with contemporary humans.
Under a stage name cribbed from her parents' hometown in Scotland, chosen to avoid any mix-ups with the Canadian star whose name so closely resembles her own, the singer Sarah McLaughlin concocts dark pop in the vein of Halsey or Billie Eilish.
Cox's descriptions of the inside of the nursery are partly cribbed from the short story, but coupled with his occasional, terrifying sound effects and the cold indifference of your basically animated, unfeeling children, The World the Children Made is psychological horror at its finest.
But by breaking up TLOP with these grandiose, celestial soundscapes—which themselves have been cribbed from other songs, like the consummate narrative on "Lowlights" that comes from a track by Kings of Tomorrow—we're certainly encouraged to feel there's a sense of importantance here.
Government investigation finds federal agencies failing at cybersecurity basics One of the major moves to improve cybersecurity, elevating CyberCom to Unified Combatant Command level, was an Obama-era plan, and the president's overall cyber strategy, announced last year, also cribbed liberally from the previous administration.
CLEVELAND — The Republican Party woke up to a cascade of finger-pointing and confusion on Tuesday as the Trump campaign was rocked by accusations that parts of Melania Trump's convention speech had been cribbed from the one that Michelle Obama delivered to Democrats in 2008.
And as Mr. Manson watched his chance at musical fame evaporate, he grew increasingly desperate and began to sermonize with more fervor about a coming race war that he called Helter Skelter, a phrase he cribbed from the Beatles song about an amusement-park ride.
YVES SAINT LAURENT: THE PERFECTION OF STYLE The Algerian-born French designer who cribbed from Mondrian's geometric abstractions, made clothing more unisex and perfected the tailored women's pantsuit gets a retrospective — on the heels of at least three recent movies devoted to his life and career.
The video is cribbed from sources like the sci-fi film "Contact" (1997), documentary footage from Ms. Baga's family's native Philippines, interviews with people on outer-body experiences, and the Wikipedia entry for World Contact Day calling on humans to bond together to communicate with aliens.
As a public service — and absolutely not because I needed help with the puzzle — I cribbed a note from one of the editors' desks, and the following entries should be accepted as correct: CO/NE NE/COCO-NENE-COCONENECOCONECN Rinse and repeat for the other theme answers.
McBride has said in interviews that season one of Vice Principals cribbed from John Hughes, the famous chronicler of high school life, but season two will be far more influenced by Brian De Palma, whose violence-ridden, blood-spattered films flirt, frequently, with tilting into outright exploitation.
Whether that means embracing campy production or dressing in outfits that look like they were cribbed from NASA, it's about chasing things that make you feel a certain way, and ditching the insecurity or self-regard that makes you want to apologize for it in the New Yorker.
Among the album's other offerings are "No Distraction," with a strummy guitar part over a foursquare rock beat, and a chord progression partly cribbed from the Police; and "Dear Life," a late-Beatles-esque existential cry, with a welcome core of oddness within its retro shell. Capitol. November.
It's a toxic example of limousine liberalism, millionaires putting on a self-congratulatory show with jokes cribbed from the New York Times editorial page—come to think of it, it's exactly the kind of un-self-aware institution that a really good comedy show could grind down to size.
The book that marked our entry into the age of the aphorism, and not in a great way, was David Shields's "Reality Hunger," a 2010 collection of age-old aphorisms, inspirational quotes seemingly cribbed from Reader's Digest and sentimental scribbles from Mr. Shields himself, all tossed together without attribution.
Originally billed as a better texting app based on a streamlined sign up process cribbed from WhatsApp by only needing your phone number to get started, Allo was just one half of a Google's 2016 messaging push that was designed to work in tandem alongside its new video calling app Duo.
"The fact that his healthcare 'plan' is clearly cribbed from worn-out and false GOP talking points proves that Trump is just another Republican politician who wants to take healthcare away from millions of Americans without offering any substantive alternative," Democratic National Committee Communications Director Luis Miranda said in a statement.
NECSI is a research organization that uses math cribbed from the study of physical and chemical systems—bear with me for a moment—and newly available giant data sets to explain how events in one part of the world might affect something seemingly unrelated in another part of the world.
Some of the moves seemed cribbed straight from daytime television: bringing home a soldier from Afghanistan and reuniting him with his family, awarding a nine-year-old girl with a scholarship, and awarding the conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom — complete with a ceremony in the First Lady's box.
Both sets of works within these two themes feature text-based messages: each portrait is set in the impenetrable gloom of a dive, with the surrounding darkness punctuated by one- or two-word statements from neon bar signs in the background; the object studies bear painted inscriptions cribbed from AA literature, step work, and symbology.
It's not that One Direction never cribbed from the Beastie Boys, because they did and then some, and it's not that they never put out a single with some problematic lyrics, because they did and then some, but they also never stopped bowing down in worship to the girls who gave them their careers.
Visitors to the exhibition can see "THINK" (1964), which was projected on multiple screens in a large, egg-shaped theater as the centerpiece of IBM's 1964 World's Fair pavilion, and from it extrapolate the origination of the multi-screen technique that was cribbed and brought into popularity via the opening sequence of the original "Thomas Crown Affair" (1968).
" (Twilight Time) THE CRIMSON CULT Loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House," this patchwork British production from 1968, now on Blu-ray, can boast three distinguished horror veterans (Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele) as well as an orgy scene that seems cribbed from Kenneth Anger's underground "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
When Mr. Trump suddenly announced he'd make a trip to Mexico, or when he set up a table of off-brand raw steaks at one of his campaign events, or when a Twitter user discovered that portions of Melania Trump's convention speech had been cribbed from Michelle Obama — at these moments, Twitter exploded in an orgy of jokes.
The paintings in Pictures and Gestures were derived from stock photography depicting people at work and play, and his previous show, Swipe (February 103 – March 210, 256), delved into art history, with silhouettes cribbed from works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Charles Demuth, Charles Ray, Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, among many others, all of which were recognizable despite their minimal, abstracted form.
An overeager speech writer cribbed notes from a speech delivered years ago by the current first lady and hoped no one would notice, while Melania, in some far reaches of her brain where the English language is still a struggle, channeled Rick Astley in hopes of convincing reluctant Americans that her husband was never gonna run around and desert you.
Even as the fleet-footed style of Jersey Club its dalliances with mainstream success—seeing the scene's most visible stars taking up residence at big festivals and its off-kilter rhythms and sounds cribbed by big stars—the artist born Kalayisa Drake has mostly just been keeping to herself, woodshedding, working on her uniquely high-energy blends and ecstatic original productions.
The text includes a foreword by eco-blogger and activist Joe Romm, and the book is peppered with anodyne pull-quotes of questionable relevance, for example, "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry," attributed to Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia (1732), a collection of maxims from which Ben Franklin cribbed more than a few of Poor Richard's adages.
The Beach Boys were taken to court after "borrowing" the music to Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" for their own "Surfin' U.S.A." But Berry got a little more personal when the Beatles' "Come Together" cribbed lyrics from his tune, "You Can't Catch Me." During a duet with Lennon on The Mike Douglas Show, Berry changing the song's key from F to E as the cameras rolled.
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As those comparisons suggest (and a few more, such as the fear-your-children theme in the '60s classic "Village of the Damned"), one of the problems with the film -- produced by Shawn Levy ("Stranger Things"), written by Chad Hodge, and marking the live-action debut for director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (the "Kung Fu Panda" sequels) -- is that virtually every aspect of it feels cribbed from something else.
In the same way Picasso cribbed from African sculpture to almost-invent Cubism in his "Demoiselles" (full-blown Cubism came a year later) Ms. Brown's ladies echo the exaggerated femininity of Japanese anime; Lisa Yuskavage's paintings; Dana Schutz's reduxes of Willem de Kooning's Cubist-inspired reduxes of Picasso; the graffiti aesthetic of Kenny Scharf; and the brilliantly weird figurative paintings of 20th-century outliers like late-Francis Picabia and Leonor Fini.
Each company kept trying to one-up the other, first with the WCW turning Hulk Hogan heel as part of the nWo's formation, then with WWE launching the Attitude Era, a raunchy reboot of pro wrestling cribbed largely from ECW, a small promotion out of Philadelphia which leaned on sex and violence (and an awful lot of really, really good wrestling) as a means to differentiate itself from the scattered remains of the defunct pro wrestling territories of the old days.
Fortnite's latest update cribbed at least two major features from Apex Legends, the first battle royale from publisher EA. (Apex managed to find a wild 25 million players in just under a month, after a surprise, no-promo release; it's currently the only real competition Fortnite has in the space.) "It's not that it's particularly better or worse suited for the attention economy than others, but it does strike a chord with generations, who typically have more time to allocate, which is why it is doing so well in the attention economy," says Severin.

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