Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills for pants somebody else pooped in!" my husband exclaimed when I told him about the diminutive jeans). But I remembered that I was about to buy a garment my son would wear once and quickly outgrow and that...
...problem in Hollywood is that Julia Roberts is the Julia Robertses of the world. And that's partly because studios don't try to promote and recycle actresses the way they do actors. So the babe roles go to young not-yet-stars who work cheap; a star's salary may be 25 to 50 times that of his putative leading lady. Some actresses use the exposure wisely; others vanish. But each summer produces a new crop of babes in Boyland...
...sounds like a cheap horror flick: you're sitting in this weird-looking chair when suddenly it grabs hold of your forearms and starts kneading them like cookie dough. Relax. Seriously. This is no nightmare. It's the Inada D.1, the ultimate in high-tech massage chairs...
...great democratization of plastic surgery that her unveiling can be portrayed as a family event--like a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, only slightly more disturbing. "Having work done" was once something rich people did, quietly, and everyone else whispered about, cattily. Then came Botox--the relatively cheap and painless gateway drug of cosmetic work--and plastic surgery was being touted in women's magazines and on talk shows. This has been a boon to surgeons, but it has turned plastic surgery into the new Las Vegas: once laced with glamour and vice, now opened up to boring normal...
...wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union that cheap Russian ice vessels and their crews became available to tour operators, and Antarctic tourism could really begin to develop, with the 1990-91 season setting a then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights...