Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often wonder why Malta is never mentioned, or at least has not been mentioned for quite some time in your magazine. However, reading People [June 13], I was quite surprised to see that you referred to the plot of Cheap Detective as a Maltese omelette...
...alternative, Carter ordered the Air Force to load its newest weapon, the comparatively cheap (less than $1 million each) and deadly accurate cruise missile, aboard modified B-52s. He left open the possibility of putting cruise missiles aboard modified C-5A Galaxy transports and military versions of the Boeing 747. Pentagon planners estimate that Carter's plan could cost, overall, at least 20% less than building the B-1 and that it will give the U.S. just as good a capability of penetrating Soviet air defenses...
...find formal restaurants intimidating and expensive, the in-and-out eateries are godsends. No snooty headwaiters, no discomfort over which fork to use; the teen-agers who always seem to be taking orders at the counter are chipper as Munchkins. At many roadside stands the food may indeed be cheap, but it is also inexpensive. Tests have shown that it would cost about two-thirds of the menu price to duplicate some fast-food meals at home. Factor in cooking labor and clean-up time, not to mention the absence of such fillips as special sauces or eleven secret herbs...
...mighty and rather moralistic hurricane undoes the tacky works of man-notably, several cheap-Jack old-folks' dwellings built in the Florida Keys. John D. MacDonald, author of the Travis McGee thrillers, does not include his detective hero in this large, motley cast. Pity, McGee's cynicism disguises the passion of an exasperated environmentalist. His mesomorphic Floridian would have collared the dredgers and developers, and punched the crooked county commissioners in the chops...
Most sequels offer more of the same. This one offers less of the same. William Friedkin's original was well enough made to be offensive. Here we are spared many of Friedkin's cheap shocks - the mutilations, the vomiting, the bestiality...