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SPIKE Lee made one the best movies of 1986, She's Gotta Have It, on a shoestring budget of $125,000 and built a following based on that movie's breezy, brilliant invention and irreverence. The movie allowed Lee to get a major studio, Columbia, to back him on his...
All this seems to have been accomplished on a shoestring. Farrar, Straus is well known for skimpy salaries. It has occupied the same dingy office space in downtown Manhattan -- far out of the midtown orbit of most of the giant firms -- for more than 20 years. Wolfe politely describes the...
The international union has already poured $500,000 into the Harvard effort, which an AFSCME spokesman described as a "shoestring operation for the last couple of years." The funds will enable the home-grown union to hire more staff, increase one-on-one contact with workers, distribute leaflets, and do...
4:30. Lunch, finally, at Chianti, a Melrose Avenue favorite of Molly's. Her usual cuisine is less fastidious: hash browns, fried chicken strips with an orange-whip drink and, a Ringwald special, catsup-drenched onion rings from which the onions have been eviscerated--fried batter au Heinz. Today, though...
"We party harder, but we do more laundry," Prince says. And when Quincy house residents party more they pump more money into their house budget. Last year $4500 of the Quincy budget came from formal ticket sales. Indeed many houses plan parties on a shoestring budget and hope ticket sales...