Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andros blames the demise of his company primarily on a swamp of cheap CB sets imported from - where else? - Japan...
...Sheck sheck sheck, sheck sheck sheck, sheck your booty:" he sang it in the Starlite Niteclub that evening. They were kvelling and pogoing all the way back to the cheap seats...
Speaking of cheap seats, there'll be no going to concerts around here until the end of exams. (If those of you out at Brandeis and Wellesley think I'm being a trifle Harvard-centric, but it's only for your protection. Pick up the Real Paper sometime of you want to see just what I'm protecting...
...like many artists who become too wrapped up in their own films, does not realize when he carries a good thing too far. For example, he hardly passes up an opportunity to clown, and as a result, he often comes off as a buffoon. Most of the puns and cheap sight gags are of dubious comic value, and the fragile thread of humor which supports them eventually breaks when it is stretched to a ridiculous length. In one scene, the train Wilder is on jolts, and Wilder's sleeping wife is thrown to the seat opposite her and a male...
...fire-insurance adjuster in Minnesota, I can see benefits of the wood stove [Dec. 5] to the homeowner and disaster to the small insurance companies. You wouldn't believe the wild ideas people have. Cheap little stoves that get red hot. Good stoves too near the walls-so the heat sets fire to the dwelling. Stovepipes plugged into old or too short chimneys. They all spell unwanted fire...