Word: cheap
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RICK ROCKWELL & DARVA CONGER Was there ever a moment's doubt he would end up playing cheap comedy clubs and she would end up naked...
...NIKON COOLPIX990 Digital photography finally became cheap enough, easy enough and good enough for the rest of us. This Nikon takes pictures that look as good as those on film, and its preview function--you can erase the flops--does film one better. No wonder 5 million people bought digital cameras...
...breaks down twice as often. More critically, it's not ready for military missions: It hasn't been approved for the vigorous maneuvers required in combat and lacks the required gun, and Marines can't rappel from it via ropes as required. It also has problems common to cheap cars if not $87 million aircraft: The doors are hard to open, endangering passengers and crew if they need to evacuate quickly; the heating and cooling system isn't sufficient to keep those on board comfortable; and it lacks any bathroom facilities for its ocean-crossing missions...
That kind of question can take a career to answer, but a good place to begin is at what Ed Sanders has called "a secret location on the lower east side," that fortuitous confluence of cheap rent and raw talent that produced some of the last century's most important writers: Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, William Bourroughs, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayers...
...unconventional and anti-academic, they stapled together 8 1/2 inch by 11 copies of their own poems in dingy church basements, distributed them to a small group of subscribers or friends, or published in magazines with names like Lines or Fuck You: A Magazine for the Arts. It was cheap, efficient, bohemian and fun. But these once unknown writers have come a long way since then. Random House and Alfred Knopf are their venues...