Word: shoestringing
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Yet, despite its admirable record, the Press Connection does not match the thorough local and state coverage of its competitors, nor does it try to cover national and international news. It remains very much a shoestring operation, printed on rented presses and edited in three cramped rooms of a warehouse...
Since its shoestring beginning in an Ocean Park, Calif., garage, Synanon has done very well by itself. The taxexempt, nonprofit organization has 883 adults and 300 children living in luxury on two ranches in the Sierra foothills, beach-front property in Santa Monica and Tomales Bay and in a converted...
Personal Abuse. All three have run their campaigns on shoestring budgets with limited staffs out of dilapidated headquarters in West Virginia. Seeking to shake hands at shift-change times, they often must show up at one mine at midnight, at another many miles away eight hours later, at a third...
Psychic Return. One of the siren songs of newsletter publishing is the shoestring startup cost-typically $10,000, v. 50 to 100 times that much to start a magazine. "All you need is a typewriter, a mimeograph machine and an idea," says Ken Galloway, who founded Capitol Publications in Washington...
9. Los Olvidados. Bunuel made this film in exile in Mexico in 1950, on a shoestring budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the...