Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meager budgets of independent film makers allow them to take the risks which the major studios are unwilling to assume. They can create multifaceted characters and develop themes with enough subtlety that viewers must labor to understand them. They rely on plot rather than on explosions to keep the attention of their audiences. Of course, some Indy films are as terrible as Hollywood flicks, but the best of them are more intellectually rewarding than anything that Hollywood has to offer...
...repetitively pledges allegiance to. I hope I am not the first to inform Sen that in reality trickle-down provides just that: a trickle. The unfathomable abundance of wealth the upper class and the educated "elite" monger through the noble pursuit of investment banking is directly proportional to the meager scraps for the rest of us at the bottom. WILLIAM F. AUSTIN...
...they are suffering financially and complain that bars continuing to allow smoking have been largely unpunished and are profiting nicely. In the first six months of 1998 there have been 408 complaints, but the city of Los Angeles has issued only three citations for smoking violations. Statewide, similarly meager enforcement is reported...
There were ways to get to him. When ingenue Ann Rutherford asked for a supplement to her modest salary in the highly profitable Andy Hardy series, L.B. began his familiar ploy. Then Rutherford took out her little bank book, showed him her meager savings and said she had promised her mother a house. Mother was the magic word. L.B. embraced her, but chastely; down his cheeks came the obligatory tears; and Rutherford left with her raise...
...Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain. After three days in the plexes, The Waterboy made back its meager $23 million budget...