Word: layaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kiddies the culmination of the Yuletide season is the hysteria of opening presents during the early dawn of the 25th of December. For the parents the culmination of Christmas is early January when all those convenient layaway bills come due. The only vestige of spirit that seems to pervade Christmas these days is the joy of paying off the last charge account bill or seeing a toy actually last in one piece from one Christmas to the next...
...this tremendous disdain for my profession and this huge arrogance." She airily admits that she agreed to a role in that $10 million bomb, The Adventurers, "purely for money." She adds: "Selling out wasn't as hard as I thought it would be." Anyway, making movies "is a layaway plan for my forties, a means of financing my twilight years...