Word: cheapness
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...Noble, the 25-min. film delighted audiences and became a holiday standard. "The Grinch" and the ineffable "Horton Hears a Who," which the same team produced four years later, It had an educational function as well: it taught kids that there was a higher form of animation than the cheap, stilted stuff they'd been exposed to on the many Hanna-Barbera series. Here was character created through line and movement, humor and heart in the grand scheme and the tiniest, Who-size details. Fabulous work all around...
...side: while talks drag on, it can quietly continue developing nuclear weapons. Says Peter Hayes, a North Korea expert at the Nautilus Institute, a California think tank: "The longer we wait, the higher the price we have to pay to buy them out." Sometimes, talk can be anything but cheap...
Given that it’s about three weeks into term, you’ve probably started to hate your sourcebooks for their content instead of their price. Before going on, let me refresh your memory: You paid 100 bucks for a thick stack of photocopies bound in cheap plastic. That the process of shelling out your hard-earned dough has been made easier through Harvard Printing and Publishing Service’s (HPPS) new online ordering system is nice, but only as the new system that allows me to pay my parking tickets on the web is nice...
...Layfield, owner of the Melting Pot in Westwood, N.J. At the Vinoklet, diner Greg Schafer grouses, "I don't cook at home, and if I'm going to pay good money, I want someone to do the cooking for me." What's more, do-it-yourself dining isn't cheap. At the Minturn Country Club in Minturn, Colo., Kobe beef costs $49.95--uncooked. Still, restaurateurs insist that the customer knows best. "Who knows what to them is rare?" says Mikulic, owner of Vinoklet. "This way, if they screw it up, I get no complaints." Back at Chung Kiwha in Florence...
...Secretary of Defense led him to make some of the crucial decisions in the major crises of the twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startling surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing...