Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...danger. This is the literary equivalent of going after the family pet in a horror flick: the victim is a helpless pawn whom we have little chance to meet properly, and thus have little incentive to care about in any specific sense. Put simply, it's a cheap way to build drama...
Interstate 10, bound east to west, is a nonstop train of dreamers. Barreling through the desert, they come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with...
...Store of Choice: I'd say it's not brand name, but not necessarily cheap. I think she likes the fact that she doesn't adhere to specific standards. She might go to the Salvation Army or Mass Army Navy or The Garment District and find some very nice thing there. She's still looking for a bargain, but I think she's going there to look for nice things...
...upset that rule--and just may have found its answer to the ABC phenom Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--with the crass namesake and surprise smash Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In the process, it underscored the new reality of TV's New Reality: oddball, cheap nonfiction programs, from game shows to voyeurism stunts, are elbowing aside sitcoms and dramas. And they may get even weirder...
...IIIc, which comes with 8 megs of memory, doesn't come cheap (asking price: a hefty $449). At 6.8 oz., it is supposedly the lightest color handheld computer on the market. Its rechargeable batteries promise to run, with "normal use," for a few weeks without a recharge; the cradle that you use to synchronize the Palm with your desktop doubles as a recharger...