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Like a lot of Samsung's new devices, these combine cutting-edge technology with award-winning design--at premium prices. That's something new for a company that only a few years ago was known as a mass marketer of cheap TVs and VCRs--the kind you bought off a shipping pallet at Costco if you couldn't afford a Sony or Mitsubishi. Since 1997, however, Samsung has begun rubbing shoulders with the market leaders in high-end cell phones, DVD players, elegant flat plasma TVs and a wide range of other consumer products. These gadgets are sometimes less expensive...
Could it be because baseball movies are generally preposterous, melodramatic, rife with the sort of cheap film-school tricks that momentarily make us worry our star might not make this pitch? Shucks, the absurdity is part of the fun. I’m no melting puddle, and I’m still a sucker for The Natural. Robert Redford smashes home runs that defy physics and logic, and he hits the last one—the one that shatters the floodlights—while poisoned, and shot and bleeding through his uniform...
Many customers said Tommy’s greatest drawing factor was—and still is—the cheap price of its pizzas...
...nearby Brown, for example—includes drinking. Here at Harvard, alcohol has been gone from Springfest for so long (okay, four years) that students don’t even remember that it was once an option. Would it be expensive? Sure—so charge for cheap tickets, say $5 or so (and give the folks who still don’t want to go a chance to opt out). Springfest has been dry for years, but the council overlooked the opportunity to revisit the issue with the advent of Summers. Lee says the obstacle is the massive amount...
Jake Mucklenborg, a worker at the Ferranti Dege photography store on Mass. Ave., said he’s only an occasional pizza-eater and didn’t really care about the quality of the food—“It’s cheap,” he said...