Word: cheap
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...creates what Fogg Museum print curator Marjorie Cohn describes as a comic book-like effect: 36 prints, each one possessing a strong left-to-right dynamic, pull the viewer through the Christian narrative, from original sin to the last judgment. This series of doctrinal woodcuts, which were, unlike engravings, cheap and available to great swaths of society, takes advantage of mass media as efficiently as anything that has come after...
...stomach (I have the same reaction to thoughts of Scary Movie. If I think of them simultaneously, I have to pull the air sick bag from under my chair.) Though Carrey tried valiantly to up the ante on the gross-out schtick, the movie just never rose above its cheap tricks. Remember, Mary succeeded because of its pacing - in between the astounding sight gags, the Farrellys toyed with an ultrasweet romantic comedy that offered all kinds of weird nuances in Cameron Diaz' title character. Not only does Renee Zellwegger have zero personality as Irene, but the entire movie...
...Ronghi, "assaulted several females when they touched some of the female's hair, grabbed their buttocks and their body parts and spoke to them in a seductive manner. 'Hey baby, what's your name?'" one soldier later confided to investigators that he groped the women "just to get a cheap thrill...
...Down to Earth Most Sydneysiders have little reason to visit the dull, middle-class suburb of Parramatta. Sure, there's a huge shopping mall. And a bowling alley. And some cheap Asian restaurants. But it ain't bright lights, big city...
Call me a masochist. Most people have learned the hard way to treat their computers gingerly, but last week I deliberately tried to cripple mine. First, I deleted every cheap program that came pre-installed on my year-old PC, wiping out a sea of icons cluttering my screen. Then I took a dozen programs off my bookshelf and installed them one by one, praying for disaster. I hooked up a joystick. I installed a video card. When warning signs sprang up, informing me of the potential hazards of my rampage, I ignored them. Finally, I clicked on the Windows...