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Movies are expensive. It's easy to overlook how much you shell out to see one--going to the movies is such a standard activity one barely thinks about how much is being plunked down. If you catch yourself in this trap--ignoring your expenditures because, "hey, I'm just going to see a movie"--then it's probably a good idea to remind yourself exactly what this proposition consists of. You are paying good money for the privilege of spending two hours sitting down. Now this seems obvious enough, probably even condescending, but you'd be surprised what people...
...clarity all the words to the Seth: "The normal amount of bouncing, jumping and frolicking was nowhere to be found; likewise, the audience was not treated to a repeat of Ryan's crowd surfing (to a boisterous rendition of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline") from this summer's Hatch Shell concert. The Guster experience was incomplete in other ways as well; Ryan's classic Gusterspeak was sporadic and completely inaudible from this reporter's balcony seat...
...lucky enough to reach all 21 schools' second round, meaning he had to shell out $1,250 more...
...Mansfield judges the lobster ready and takes it out of the pot. Cracking the shell, he extracts the meat. "The big question is whether men should be forced to change diapers," he said removing the lobster's alimentary canal, "my reasoning for not doing it is that I would not be able to look at them, all grown up, and still respect them...
...stock-market offerings, are pumping money into old media and stretching the creative limits of Madison Avenue. "If you don't gain market share now, you're never going to get it," says analyst Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch. By the end of this year, e-commerce companies will shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending a bit more offline than on their home turf...