Word: cheapening
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...Russians do, the U.S. dollar is already getting its roughest ride in years. And it looked as if it would continue as long as foreign nations fear that a budget deficit estimated at $11 billion or more next year will bring on new inflation in the U.S. and inevitably cheapen the dollar...
...hilarity, in Who Was That Lady, begins at home, and ends there. Once the FBI gets involved, the fun that is meant to snowball proceeds to melt. The silliness, instead of turning cartwheels, drags a leg; the gags cheapen, the situations crumble. Acute FBItis sets in; then comes that death rattle of farce, when the play is in infinitely worse trouble than the characters. For all its earlier bounciness, Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? eventually seems as long-drawn-out as its title, and pretty nearly...
Cranking up the printing presses is no solution, says Wallenberg. It would simply cheapen currencies. Neither are proposals such as are made in some undeveloped countries for huge new government income taxes that would be used eventually to pay pensions, would be invested meanwhile in new enterprises. Business and labor groups would simply add such taxes to their selling price and wages, concentrate on "take-home pay" and "profit after taxes." Worse yet, says Wallenberg, voluntary savings would dry up or seek sanctuary abroad...
...actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just can't avoid...
...major effect of the old Code was to cheapen the film's subject matter rather than purify it. Instead of presenting sex, which is after all the theme of most drama, honestly and openly, Hollywood presents us Marilyn Monroe wiggling her hips, and the audience is supposed to respond "This is SEX." Such an attitude is perhaps greatly responsible for the gold-plated, wired-for-sound image of the world that Hollywood purveys...