Word: cheap
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soon learned that maybe I should have stayed outside. The stink of cheap cologne, and I mean really cheap, was combined with a heavy alcoholic stench that hung over the room in such a thick fog that I had trouble breathing. Men were shouting all over the place, as the doors were late in opening. Even the Salvation Army Man had earphones on. I decided to check our tickets and see where we were sitting. First row, floor. I looked at Nate. He was practically giggling with glee, managing to sputter "five-feet from the ring!" I told him that...
...know, has been around for quite a while. And honestly, this woman's chest was an embarrassment to the profession. Yes, it was large. Yes, all 17,963 men in the audience didn't seem to notice anything else. But it looked like a color chart for cheap housepaint! Her face looked like a Cover-girl light beige, her neck a "Perfectly Peach," her lower neck a "Truly Tan," her clavicle area a "Trendy Toupe," the first three inches of her chest a "Light Chocolate Brown" and the next five inches were decidedly an "Earthy Ebony...
...fact of the matter is, Rocker will get another chance. There aren't too many left-handed pitchers who throw mid-to-high 90s and have a put-away pitch like his slider. He'll also come for cheap, reportedly...
...play bears a cartoon by the author's son.) Because of the box and other doodads--heavy paper, color foldouts--the issue costs $22, but Eggers, who has worked as a designer (and insisted on designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background shows in both the physical journal and its self-aware marginalia (for example, its website, mcsweeneys.net offers reviewers a list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness...
...bought a cell phone, sunglasses and a tasteful pink pashmina scarf. I had heard Sundance would be overrun with agents, producers and movie stars. If only that were true. The town is in fact overrun by desperate indie moviemakers. I thought indie was just another word for cheap, artsy films that no one sees. It turns out indie means movies made by rich kids who spend their parents' money without any way to get their films shown in theaters where people buy tickets...