Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have spurred further price competition with bargains of their...
Inside each of us is a frozen êclair waiting to be microwaved, and this ridiculous flick, filmed on the cheap by Film Consortium of Canada Inc., does the job well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead...
...endemic in the Church of England, and usually comes from reading Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback." There is also the insufferable Bed-does, a cashiered prep school teacher obscurely on the lam, who mutters cracks about Alcibiades being a queer. A French couple reminds Durrell of "very cheap microscopes...
...lonely killer, cunningly carrying out his crazed sexual fantasies by coldly stalking female victims and killing them in the night, is a hackneyed figure of cheap thrill movies and crime pulps. But in New York, his existence is a chilling reality, terrifying hundreds of thousands of young women in and around the city, enraging public officials, and both fascinating and frustrating one of the nation's most sophisticated police forces. The elusive "Son of Sam," who skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante...
...last bulwark of capitalism. They feel that America can hold out, and this is the main psychological factor behind the rising investment." Profit margins of U.S. corporations are now almost twice those of European firms, partly because productivity is higher. The U.S. has become something of a cheap-labor market in comparison with its European trading partners. Until the early 1970s, European labor was less costly than American. But all that has since changed. Washington devalued the overpriced dollar, inflation gathered momentum in Europe, and powerful European labor unions began winning not only higher wages but all sorts of other...