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...would be given star treatment in the credits but not in her pay packet. On the business side of Wong's career, two anomalies stand out. She was often billed higher than warranted by the importance of her character or the size of her role. (The names of black actors, no matter how substantial their roles, were typically placed below the least significant white actors.) Yet, even when she was the star, she often was paid less than her supporting actors. In Daughter of the Dragon, where she was top-billed, she earned $6,000 to Hayakawa...
People (including one of my academic advisors) begin playing spin the cell phone. Two of the girls at the table start making out while the husband of one watches. Someone pours a packet of sugar in my hair. And a second. My cell phone rings. “William, your mother is on the phone.” What timing. I’m tanked and Ma finally remembers to call. She and my father are singing Happy Birthday. They stop and ask me if I’m at a bar. I tell them no and they...
...WORKS: The brush holds a packet of special Crest formula, designed to liquefy in your mouth as you brush. For deep cleaning on back teeth--where it's needed--you can squeeze out extra paste...
...phone, but instead of hooking it up to a jack, you connect it to a small modem-like box that in turn is hooked up to your cable modem or DSL line. The device translates between the home phone and the broadband connection, transforming your voice into data packets and sending it along the Web. Internet phone service treats a phone call just like e-mail or any other packet of data. Some Web phone services use private Internet connections, but Vonage uses the public Web, so phone calls travel alongside messages, digital photos and online shopping orders. Traditional phone...
...alternative is being a "mule," smuggling heroin into the U.S. That involves swallowing packets of the drug (62 of them in her case) in Colombia and excreting them once she has cleared customs in El Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby...