Word: cheaping
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...haven’t much outlived that immaturity, and the play itself, whose humor could be likened to that of a very good TV sitcom: not brilliant, not incredibly sophisticated, but—considering the big gimmicks here, this is significant—not the kind that depends on cheap tricks either. And, Matt and Ben aside, perhaps the same should be said for the real Matt...
...little time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...
Choi recalls how the band adapted to the absence of microphone stands: By taping their makeshift microphone to a Harvard-issued floor lamp. The band members had cheap instruments and small practice amps, and Choi says the first time she actually held a real microphone with the group was at their first show, a performance in the Quincy Cage that was, in Hufstedler’s words, “a total bomb.” The show was plagued by broken strings and other assorted equipment problems. At the time Porter had been playing guitar for less than...
Tapping into the Internet for voice communications isn’t a new idea. It’s likely, in fact, that you’ve used VoIP unwittingly. Most calling cards, and in particular just about all of the very cheap ones you see in convenience stores, are provided by companies taking advantage of the technology. They have offices somewhere in America and satellite offices in a wide variety of foreign countries: You call the American office, your voice is digitized, and then it’s sent over the Internet to, for instance, the office in Ghana, where...
...embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Lynne Cheney called it "a cheap and tawdry political trick...