Word: shark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the neighborhood loan shark, who sometimes was demanding 60% last year, has raised his fee as high...
Gourmets of moderate means often scrimp on basic foods like breakfast cereals so that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre...
...argued that there have been other films as bloody and violent as The Island, but most of them have been linked, however tenuously, to some observable reality or existing moral ugliness. But these pirates have no relation with common experience. They cannot even be defended, like the great white shark Benchley invented for Jaws, as projections of a deep-rooted unconscious fear. They carry no symbolic weight, and can be seen only as the figments of a desperately groping but entirely inept imagination-a hack's fever dream. It is difficult to see why anyone would volunteer money...
...later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears a sharkskin suit," a friend once observed, "it's hard to tell where the shark stops and he begins...
...that the prime lending rate has reached a level that a Mafia loan shark wouldn't have charged ten years ago, President Carter is trying to fight inflation by forcing the poor to show "restraint" and stop wasting money on luxuries like food, clothing and shelter. It won't work simply because you can't squeeze blood out of a stone...