Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penn and Teller are ultra-show-biz-savvy New York intellectuals whose act is an ironic deconstruction of magic shows in addition to being a very impressive magic show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing...
...seem no bargain, and on normal transactions it's not. But here's the deal. The ATMS limit you to $400, but by going into a bank that honors MasterCard, as most do, you can grab a cash advance equal to your entire available credit. From a human teller (remember them?). Because of the $20 cap, that 2.5% maxes out at $800. Borrow more, and the effective percentage you pay begins to fall. Say you borrow $2,000. The charge is still $20, which works out to 1%. Borrow $10,000, if your credit limit is that high...
...council will subsidize tickets to a Penn and Teller comedy-magic concert in Sanders Theatre in January, and will also bring Saturday Night Live comedian David Spade to campus on March...
...same individual was walking into the bank area [yesterday] when the teller who observed him last time saw him again coming toward the bank. He turned and went the other direction, and she called thepolice," Pasquarello said...
...teller's call resulted in a short chasethrough Harvard Square which ended inside the mainentrance to the T station...