shoestring
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“The second most striking thing about this small magazine is what a frayed shoestring it operates on,” she wrote in “Fifty Years of the Texas Observer,” a collection of its journalism, published in 2004.
From New York Times
Take her new film, “My Happy Ending,” which was shot on a shoestring budget and a whirlwind schedule in Wales, leaving MacDowell wishing for an extra week for longer prep, different angles, more takes.
From New York Times
Working with a shoestring budget and actors of widely divergent abilities, Schroeder keeps things moving along while also managing the difficult task of creating and sustaining an atmosphere of suffocating unease.
From New York Times
The Diamondbacks loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the seventh but second baseman Rodgers made a diving, shoestring catch of Peralta’s liner to quash the threat.
From Seattle Times
From that shoestring start, Mr. Shulan wound up “a global expert in 9/11 images,” and the creative director of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, a project just then getting off the ground.
From Washington Times
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