Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, director Robert Altman weaves these themes into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with...
...present a raunchy woman who has more to offer than a mane of wavy black hair. Cher shows a new side of her abilities as an actress with the fluidity of her movements that reveal her character's ineffectual dreams of escaping from the rhythmic drowsiness of the Five & Dime shop...
...newly computerized AgriVisor service. It not only gives him weather conditions to the west and the latest hog prices on the Chicago commodities exchange, but also offers advice. Should farmers continue to postpone the sale of their newly harvested corn? "Remember," the computer counsels, "that holding on for a dime or a nickel...
...come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh 'em off. I knew more than they did, I betcha!" Inoculated against the vices she witnessed, Hunter never smoked or drank and saved a nickel of every dime she earned. Every week she sent her mother, whom she revered, a portion of her paycheck. Finally, her mother told her to stop; she was tired of going to the bank...
While the legislature is willing to sustain a small financial loss in order to send a powerful message of condemnation to Pretoria, many of the bill's sponsors are hopeful that divestment will not cost the state a dime. The Massachusetts Coalition for Divestment from South Africa--a coalition of more than 100 religious, civic and labor organizations that promoted the bill--has calculated that the state may even be able to make several million dollars in the process of divestiture. This prediction is probably overly optimistic. But by judiciously spreading the required sales over the three-year period allotted...