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Death Becomes Her tells the darkly comic story of a love triangle between aging actress Madeline, small-time writer Helen Sharp (Jennifer Simard on Broadway, Goldie Hawn in the film), and plastic surgeon Ashton (Christopher Sieber, Bruce Willis).
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In The Hills of California, Laura Donnelly’s stage mother trades favors with small-time music-industry men for her daughters’ advancement, and then Donnelly steps in to play that same daughter decades later.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Digital banks, meanwhile, have gone from being small-time disruptors to powerful forces in finance—as reflected by China’s WeBank and Korea’s KakaoBank, which have respectively notched around 400 million and 23 million customers in their respective markets.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Asia, 6 Nov. 2024
But human rights groups believe the real toll to be far greater, with thousands more users and small-time peddlers killed in mysterious circumstances by unknown assailants.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In The Hills of California, Laura Donnelly’s stage mother trades favors with small-time music-industry men for her daughters’ advancement, and then Donnelly steps in to play that same daughter decades later.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Digital banks, meanwhile, have gone from being small-time disruptors to powerful forces in finance—as reflected by China’s WeBank and Korea’s KakaoBank, which have respectively notched around 400 million and 23 million customers in their respective markets.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Asia, 6 Nov. 2024
But human rights groups believe the real toll to be far greater, with thousands more users and small-time peddlers killed in mysterious circumstances by unknown assailants.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small-time. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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