Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself in order to survive. "The filmmakers did not make a saint of Shostakovich," observes Volkov of the movie. "There are no saints in real life. He is shown as a man forced to compromise on minor things to save himself for more important things." It is a Faustian bargain few composers would like to face, even if they could write a lifetime of masterpieces in return...
...owned by Mushnik (Adam Schwartz). Seymour finds a strange plant, which he names Audrey II, after the Audrey who is the object of his affections (Sibel Ergener). Seymour discovers that the plant flourishes only when fed human blood--and it talks, to boot. He must struggle with the Faustian bargain Audrey II offers him: fame and success for the store and Seymour himself, in return for fresh flesh...
...board the Continental Boeing 747 en route from New York to Los Angeles, chances were that 90 of them had bought their tickets on the cheap. The other ten had shelled out as much as $866. The business travelers had probably paid $550, the pleasure trippers $362, the bargain hunters as little as $159. The only people who did any better were the frequent flyers who cashed in their mileage and paid nothing...
March 20: Bush, in his first foreign policy initiative, convenes the first International Conference of Prison Furloughs. In order to be able to bargain with the Soviets from a position of strength, Bush grants furloughs to all American convicted murderers the day before the conference...
...meeting with A.N.C. leaders. State President P.W. Botha also denounced the get- together. Yet some government leaders were privately pleased that the A.N.C. had dropped an antiapartheid line that declared, "There can be no normal sport in an abnormal society." The A.N.C., for its part, demonstrated a willingness to bargain, undermining the government's contention that the group is dedicated only to violence...