Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes a long way. Dealers were shaving about $200 to $300 off suggested list prices of most cars, with or without trade-ins. When pressed, dealers commonly offered discounts of $500 to $700 on cars listing at $3,500 or more with extras. Only the Cadillac dealers refused to bargain, figured that their luxury market will run high and fast without discounts...
...entertaining, thanks to Walston's antics and Miss Verdon's talent for moving about, but this isn't enough to provide the film with the success the musical enjoyed. Even embittered Milwaukee fans won't pay for the sadistic pleasure of seeing the Yankees lose--though some might bargain for their souls if an offer were made...
...possible to this ideal. In fact, it is safe to say that no woman in the world is remotely like Giulietta Masina; that may be one reason her performance carries such conviction. Masina's face, though never down-rightly funny, is always comic--and usually pathetic into the bargain. Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing, frowning, smiling, always with one eye on the reaction of its audience--perhaps this is the essential quality of the clown-face--but this becomes an attribute not only of the actress...
...with contemporary furnishings. Most popular are the Louis XV and Louis XVI chests, tables and chairs; their light-colored woods look well in small apartments. Canny British buyers are turning for good investments to the darker, out-of-favor British oak and walnut of the early 19th century. U.S. bargain hunters have been shopping for early Americana...
...Peking. It must be a two-way street. If Peking asks, "Do you recognize us as possessing Formosa," we will promptly answer "No," and that may be the end of "recognition" as a real development of two-way relations. On the other hand, we might find it useful to bargain hard about recognition of Communist China as the mainland regime, making this bargain a part of a larger deal. But recognition as a unilateral act on our part is no panacea and will bring no millennium...