Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father's" does not turn men away from the bar, and the cheap drinks increase volume and lower prices for all customers, DiMento said...
Moore has just finished post-production for Neil Simon's new film comedy, The Cheap Detective. "Neil does these spoofs as respites in between writing his more serious things. The last one we did, Murder By Death, was very successful, but it had its limitation. Concepts for Neil come out of a basic locale, a central place that his characters are tied to. The Cheap Detective is no exception, but it's a looser and much better script than Murder, and a much better movie. There were 11 names above the title in Murder; here there are 16. Cheap Detective...
People are watching less television [Jan. 9] because the programs are offensive. Situation comedies, daytime serials and police shows portray family life as abnormal, life as cheap, love as lust and sin as harmless...
...could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events...
...farms. Irrigation is an energy-intensive and usually very expensive operation. According to the Task Force on the Rules and Regulations to Govern the Application of the 160-acre Limit, the government made an original investment of $1100 per acre to build the irrigation system, which now illegally provides cheap water for the lands in question. The fact that during the past 75 years owners of large landholdings have repeatedly sought to eliminate the restriction is an indication of how much they value this government subsidy...