Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatened by it," says Cher, 35, of her upcoming Broadway debut in a comedy, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. "An artist isn't intimidated. Once I couldn't sing. Now I can." In a formidable cast that includes Karen Black, 39 (Five Easy Pieces) and Sandy Dennis, 44 (The Four Seasons), Cher plays a garrulous cocktail waitress who is hired on as an extra in the 1956 James Dean-Liz Taylor movie, Giant, when it is filmed in her small Texas town. The play also marks the Broadway bow of Film Maker...
...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel or dime deposit on bottles and cans, the state would slash pollution. And judging from the experiences of those states which already have bottle laws, Massachusetts could expect reduced energy costs and increased employment...
Then just as fast as a sudden summer's storm at sea, it was over. Said New York Floor Trader Dennis Valentino: "I've never seen a turn-around like it. The market turned on a dime and went straight up." Wall Street professionals have always been skeptical of the Barnumesque Granville, and Big Money managers in charge of directing the investments for mutual funds and pension portfolios decided that they could pick up some bargains because stocks had fallen too far. The big institutions lumbered in to buy solid stocks like General Electric, which was trading...
...many savers the lure of 50% interest rates was almost irresistible. In ust a few days, an estimated 10,000 customers signed up for the A.S.C.s at Dime Savings Bank of New York, which was offering interest rates of up to 18% plus an up-front cash bonus of $100 or more. Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan Association in Washington, D.C., received the $1 million it had decided to accept under the new plan in 1½% days...