Word: cheapness
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...refined aesthetic of Iron & Wine’s latest release, Woman King, is evident upon first glance. A perfectly square array of cheap porcelain thimbles comprises the cover art. They appear almost sacred in their arrangement and are imprinted with symbols, such as a house with a heart around it (perhaps a reference to the track “My Lady’s House”) and an image of Princess Diana with Prince Charles (perhaps calling attention to the theme of “woman king” and the general somber mood...
...some, craft consciousness has a political aspect. "There is a glut of cheap sweatshop-produced clothing out there, and it's so easy to go overboard and buy too much of it," says Shoshana Berger, founder and editor of ReadyMade magazine, a bimonthly based in Berkeley, Calif., that provides 100,000 readers mainly in their 20s and 30s with a slate of fashion, home and garden projects. "Not only are people recognizing that this mass-produced stuff is unimaginative, they're also feeling guilty about supporting unfair labor practices...
...Australians struggling on low wages might tell a different story, but they don't often get the chance to do so. Thank goodness, then, for Elisabeth Wynhausen, who decided the best way to listen to the poor was to struggle and sweat alongside them. For her book Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (Macmillan; 246 pages), she shed her identity as a senior newspaper journalist and took up residence in a world most people never...
Imagine our surprise, then, when The Crimson Staff, on its nightly stroll through the North Yard, happened two weeks ago upon a Loker Commons full of gyrating undergraduates, pulsating music, and, gasp! cheap alcohol. It was an experience so wholly alien that we left immediately, writing the whole experience off as some bizarre form of group hallucination brought on by the fumes of certain Crimson staffers in an office next to ours...
...reach into the cheetah's cage to pet it. One year, with no money for Christmas presents, he has her just pick out a star in the night sky: "We laughed about all the kids who ... got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys...