Word: pricey
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Welles, thrilled by Mankiewicz's idea for a Hearst film, was also desperate. His first RKO project--Heart of Darkness, which would be told with a subjective camera and would star Welles as Marlow and Kurtz--was deemed too pricey. Now, with Mank's unbilled help (the deal specified no screen credit for his script), Welles hoped to turn a jolly plutocrat into a tragic figure, swathe the San Simeon Sun King in the menacing shadows of movie melodrama. Kane would be Welles' Hearst of Darkness...
...aggregate growth. Now growth is not the big problem. Yet the mainstream Republican prescription remains the same. Buchanan at least grasps this paradox. But, like other Republicans, he has trouble escaping it. Being a conservative, he is skeptical of both short-term equalizers like income redistribution and of pricey long-term schemes like federally funded schooling...
...mood for a little shopping? Flanking Quincy Market are pricey gift and craft shops as well as such traditional favorites as Victoria's Secret, The Sharper Image, Banana Republic and The Gap. Don't forget to visit the seven story Limited...
...little pricey. It's a lot classy...
Some critics believe the Terrace is a pricey boondoggle that cash-strapped Madison can ill afford, even though more than half the cost will be borne by state and county funds and by private donors. Yet another source of acrimony is whether the Terrace deserves to be considered a Wright design at all. A local organization called It Ain't Wright has argued that the architect's original concept envisioned a 2.8 hectare multipurpose civic center, complete with jail and railroad station, on a pristine stretch of lakeshore. The scaled-down version being built snuggles up against a cluttered Madison...