Word: down-and-out
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...door of one down-and-out Wigglesworth rooming group displayed the cover of yesterday...
Only customers who bring the flyers can set their price. Those who arrive empty-handed get a standard menu, with prices listed. Rowitch clearly is not ready to serve free spaghettini to the down-and-out from Beverly Hills or any other part of Los Angeles...
...SherStuff's Bag Lady dolls showed up in Boston, some of that city's hundreds of homeless women were not amused. "The ultimate in vulgarity and poor taste," agreed the Globe. Last week the National Union of the Homeless picketed the company's Los Angeles factory and demanded that the down-and-out dolls be recalled. SherStuff, recognizing the value of free publicity, respectfully declined. The dolls, which sell for $45 and up, mean no offense to the homeless, said Designer Ryan Gourley, 33. "I live in Laguna Beach. Half my friends look like that...
Anyway, Salvador begins with buffoonery, as a down-and-out photojournalist (James Woods) journeys to EI Salvador with his slob friend (Jim Belushi) in search when this dynamic duo are hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would...
...HAVE those days when we wish we just hadn't gotten out of bed. Thanksgiving 1986, was one of those days for one Alexandra Sternburghen alias Viveca Von Loren (Jane Fonda), a down-and-out, little-to-be-thankful-for actress. Lolling around in the sheets of a stranger's bed, she rolls over to find that her lover of the previous eve has a large machete stuck in the middle of his chest. "If that's one of those trick knives, you can pull it out now." Its no trick. Its genuine ginsu...