Word: thrifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Star Wars figures, with a price of less than $2, were a big sell for years, all the way through Return of the Jedi. Around the late '80s, the line began to die out, and Star Wars merchandise became fodder for liquidation stores and thrift shops--and wise collectors. The early '90s saw a wave of nostalgia for the Star Wars films, and the action figures, now no longer in general circulation, became a hot commodity. Dealers thrived until Kenner unveiled a second, brand-new Star Wars figure line in 1995. Cashing in on nostalgic fans and people excited...
...newspapers. It took him a couple of years, but by 1979's Back in Your Life, he had snapped out of it, and he now plays a fusion of his two previous styles. A song on his new album, I'm So Confused, is called "The Lonely Little Thrift Store," but this thrift store sells "avocado green appliances/with the smell of domestic violences...
Many students browsed thrift stores or their own garbage looking for inspiration...
Once you decide to retire early, change your life-style to meet your new circumstances. In other words, cut back. This can mean using coupons at the supermarket, eating dinner at home instead of going to a restaurant, and buying some clothes at thrift shops, says Marc Eisenson, co-author of the new financial-management guide Invest in Yourself (John Wiley & Sons; $22.95). This also means cutting back on debt by paying off mortgages, winding down car payments and paying off credit-card bills. "The less debt you have, the more freedom you have," Eisenson says. "You don't have...
...probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue of the Virgin Mary to practice some pious ventriloquism. Check...