Word: cheapness
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...Stupid, reflexive cheap cynicism—at least for a while—will go away some, which is all to the good,” he says. “What is funny is always a matter of treading around the edges of propriety. When people use irony they mean everything from Craig Kilborn to Joseph Heller. So the annoying form of excessive commenting upon oneself, the more precious breathing one’s own fumes may be the ones [forms of irony] I would be happy to see go away...
...their firm. Internet start-ups distributed bouncy balls and T-shirts bearing their soon-to-be-forgotten logos. This year, the Office of Career Services (OCS), which runs on-campus recruiting, recieved around twenty cancellations for the career forum. Peng returned to Pfoho with a bag full of cheap pens...
...have brought down America's financial markets, but they would be pleased about the effects of their handiwork if they could pay a visit to Disney World today. Or the Las Vegas strip. Or the beaches of Hawaii. Everywhere there are signs of economic fallout: no lines, cheap tickets...
...live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city. Local employers clearly like the cheap labor. Some of the money Ibrahim and his sons earn making bricks he sends back to relatives in his village to help them buy food...
...this sentiment, above all others, that seemed to characterize fans’ responses to Wilco’s most recent Boston show, on Oct. 2 at the Avalon. A Diesel-clad, late-20-something crowd (college radio, six years ago) was, on the whole, more interested in cheap beer and idle conversation than they were in the newly [mis]conceived band. Lukewarm applause and half-hearted song requests abounded for the duration of a painfully short...