Word: cheaping
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...homage to misunderstood delinquents is its recurring misuse of Cat Stevens’ “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out,” guaranteed to enrage any “Harold and Maude” fan. Attempting to draw such a connection comes off as cheap and contrived, a sad reminder of how poorly the movie tries to encapsulate every cinematic teenage rebel of the last half-century.The film’s many unoriginal lines perhaps best exemplify this. At a party, the football captain, one of the countless students who feels he can trust...
...film.Once the film begins, it’s easy to see how this kind of cost cutting is possible. Throughout Sacchi and Caputo’s work, all signs point to an industry whose demand has vastly outgrown its resources. Clips from finished films have the reel quality of cheap commercials on your local community access station; cuts from frame to frame are sloppy, the picture is grainy and the audio is poor. Several of the other Nollywood filmmakers interviewed claim that the revival of the VHS camera to shoot their movies was essential to the survival of the industry...
...Five years ago, the local McDonald's menu listed french fries as simply "potato" and Filet-O-Fish as "fish hamburgers." Customers today are more familiar with the fare. Big Macs are on offer. So are 100-yen (92?) cheeseburgers and sandwiches with steamed buns, popular because they are cheap and soft. "Toasted buns are too hard for them," explains manager Hayato Akasako. "They like the Filet-O-Fish and the shrimp burger." Akasako says the elderly don't necessarily bridle at the new and unfamiliar. Some pay for their meals with electronic coupons downloaded to their mobile phones, even...
...Democratic primaries, it's easy to underestimate how much a Republican challenger could change the political playing field. If John McCain has his way in the coming campaign, the party of Ronald Reagan will shift its priorities on key domestic issues ranging from global warming to the cheap importation of prescription drugs. Despite the pressures of a national campaign, the candidate will remain open to the public and press, continuing the regular town halls and reporter gabfests, often in traditionally Democratic bastions. And the campaign will attempt to make inroads with independent voters in states that the electoral...
...Only a handful of hard-nosed diamond buyers take the risk of flying into Sam Ouandja these days - most fear that they and their money would simply disappear. So those who do come get their stones on the cheap...