Word: dime
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...charm because of the flat direction from Broadway choreographer/debut director Susan Stroman and over-the-top performances from its leads.The magic of the musical doesn’t fully translate; the film looks and feels unnecessary, as if it was made for the sole purpose of getting another dime out of a third adaptation.Tony-winners Lane and Broderick return to their celebrated roles as Max Bialystock, the devious Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, his timid and mentally-unstable accountant, who devise a plan to embezzle a fortune. They figure that by raising more money than needed to produce a show...
...blowing moves of University of Southern California (U.S.C.) running back Reggie Bush, one of the most thrilling players in history, has joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air à la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying...
...nearly every student groups’ heart—more money. But what really hurts is what they’re not saying: if the UC devotes all of its current resources to increased House Committee and student group funding, campus-wide social events will be left without a dime. Unless, of course, University Hall decides to foot the bill or (more likely) to pass it along to students in the form of an increased, and possibly mandatory, termbill...
...midst of poor writing, pixelated photography, and droves of typographical errors, Scene can tell us something about playing dress-up on daddy’s dime...
...tossing aside such concerns, seduced by their image of what the holiday season should be, a buy-now-pay-later culture and price cutting that is so aggressive that when all is said and done, retailers may have sold a record number of things and still not made a dime. Heavy discounting is a dicey strategy, sapping profits and exhausting shoppers. An expected sale of $18 billion in holiday gift cards promises to keep the malls full in January. But then, says Ken Goldstein, an economist at the Conference Board (which tracks the marketplace), "we're in for a long...