Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obviously disturbing when the number of A-range grades is virtually equal to B-range grades. And it's no secret to students that in certain guts a B+ is as automatic as handing in the papers and skimming some sucker's lecture notes before the final...
Despite these arguments, cynics, pundits and alternative-music ideologues were predicting Woodstock '94 would be a corporatized simulacrum of the original festival. A '60s myth would be used to sucker the 16- to 30-year-old demographic. Woodstock '94 was seen as the ultimate musical sellout, the sort of thing that made Kurt Cobain leave this world riding on a shotgun blast. MTV, which televised some of the festival and launched a home-shopping show during it, ran an ad for its coverage with the slogan, "All you have to do to change the world is change the channel...
...manager (Danny Glover) what moves to make when they're present. Thus man and boy are forced to bond. Will the Angels win the pennant? Will the skipper keep his cool? Will Roger find the father figure he needs? If you're asking those questions, you're just the sucker this movie is looking...
...registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude. He's wonderful at portraying someone who's just been sucker-punched by fate...
When the Celtics first came out, at $18.50 a "unit" (another name for a share), the Boston papers scoffed and said it was a sucker play because the team was worth maybe $5 a unit at the time. But the fans are having the last scoff because all along they've got a 7% to 13% annual tax-sheltered distribution, and even without Larry Bird the value of the team is catching up to the original price...