Word: cheapness
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...interest in the cool clique, it just shows her desire to be a part of it. As Wood follows Reed deeper and deeper into the hole they create for themselves, the movie becomes more and more over the top, but the strong acting keeps it from becoming a cheap, cautionary after-school special. But the key is Holly Hunter, playing Wood’s divorced mother. She embodies a mother who is both easy to hate and rebel against and then, finally, to come back to in an ending that lets the audience forgive all her maternal mistakes...
Ever wake up on a Sunday morning with a hangover, wishing that alcohol were more expensive? Like it’s just another instance of the Man trying to keep you down, head-in-toilet, by making beer so irresistibly cheap? If your answer is yes, then you may have already come to the very same far-fetched conclusion that a team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has recently proven: cheap beer means college students binge drink...
...mixed feelings about the Sept. 15 cover illustration. While an Ohio woman was "relieved that TIME tastefully acknowledged the second anniversary of 9/11 without resorting to garish displays," a Californian was not pleased, declaring, "Those three scowling, sunglasses-wearing men look as if you plucked them out of a cheap music video. It's an ugly stereotype, pandering to our worst prejudices." And a Belgian was even more piqued, saying, "Rarely have I seen a more racist cover picture or one more likely to reinforce misguided nationalism and resentment on both sides of the world...
...days later she is back, alone, ordering an ornate daybed for $398. She also picks up a tasseled pink paper lantern for $12. "Why in the world would I need that, right?" she says, laughing. "But it just looked so cute and was so cheap." Plus, she reasons, everything will look great with her daughter's pink-and-yellow flowered comforter from Company Kids and the new desk from PBKids (part of Pottery Barn). "When I was growing up, I had to share with my four sisters and a brother. I was lucky to have a bed!" she says, exaggerating...
...million American children in all, are routinely denied annual checkups and basic treatment for their illnesses because they are uninsured. Another 13 million children are clinically overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control, in part because many of them are also poor and uninsured and can afford only cheap, unhealthy food. Childhood obesity increases the likelihood of being overweight as an adult and significantly shortens life expectancy. It also creates health problems that deprive children of the active, carefree youths that they all deserve...