Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to get the most bang for their buck, producers toss in every ingredient in they can think of to make the most profit: the biggest, most expensive actors, the most complicated special effects and the most exotic locales. Time and time again, the one element they always gloss over is a credible story. They figure if they truss it up enough, the audience will be fooled by all the razzle dazzle. Most of the time it doesn't work...
...exercise in how long one's tolerance will hold out before snapping, an exercise everywhere shot through with impatience and bitterness. And as the league continues to look more and more like daytime drama, the expectations it has for its fans approach indolence and a wit slower than a Buck Williams drive...
Across the way from the new McIntyre & Moore, Buck-a-Book's bright green sign advertises new books for only a dollar. Down the street, the funky Someday Cafe and the Somerville Theater liven up the nightlife. It seems that McIntyre & Moore is again in its element...
PARIS: The buck stops with Juan Antonio Samaranch. The International Olympic Committee president is answerable to no one, and that may make it hard for him to keep his job. "He's a part of the whole rotten system," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "He may not have personally accepted bribes, but he either turned a blind eye or else failed to properly oversee Olympic decision-making...
...20th century." Lyttelton also concedes that his company didn't want to cross Barenboim, Du Pre's artistic executor and an important artist who wields influence in the music community. "We would not want [our current artists] suspicious that we would do anything to make a quick buck," he says...