Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years friends have told me how easy it is to air hitchhike. A cheap way to a suntan, they said, with a chance for adventure besides. In the weeks before spring break my friend and I dared each other and boasted to others until we had no choice: we would drive to her home in New Jersey on Sunday and air hitchhike south on Monday--anywhere south. Easy...
...Life in the convent is by no means bacchanalian, but Jackson still insists on drinking Chateau Lafitte Rothschild to excess. And Enders assumes that it is inherently amusing to show nuns talking about "screwing" their enemies as well as the neighborhood Jesuit priests. Instead of mordant commentary, Enders employs cheap shots...
...basis of leaked information, the program was already drawing heavy fire last week from labor leaders, the petroleum, coal and auto industries, and Congress. Small wonder, since the plan will raise fundamental questions about Americans' automobile-centered life-styles and their free-enterprise industrial system based on cheap and plentiful energy. A classic donnybrook is in the making, with the outcome very much in doubt...
Reviewing his company's conservation attempts, J. Robert Ferguson Jr., executive vice president of U.S. Steel, conceded that Big Steel in the past had used then cheap energy in order to conserve scarce capital funds. "The result is that we've had to go back and re-examine what we've been doing...
...critics lambasted the producer for a casting blooper. Critic John Mason Brown noted that his colleagues seemed singularly omniscient in knowing precisely how a prostitute should look. The luminous and lovely Liv Ullmann is no one's image of a prostitute either. But Anna Christie is such a cheap, cosmetic come-on of a drama as to vie with any streetwalker...