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But that's no reason we can't do a little bit of dime-store psychologizing all on our own, right?

Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011

But that's no reason we can't do a little bit of dime-store psychologizing all on our own, right?

Rick Horowitz: Obama: No More Mr. Nice Guy? Rick Horowitz 2011

That was the stuff of made-for-TV movies and dime-store mystery novels.

The 7 Glenn Beck 2011

Yet pretending the dime-store trophy we now hold up is what we were all about these past ten years is also like asking us to throw away the whole decade -- and in turn this becomes yet another badge of defeat.

Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War? Michael Vlahos 2011

In the same dime-store ­inspirational vein, he italicizes the content of his emails and speeches, as if every word were transcendent.

When Latte Lost Its Luster Roger Lowenstein 2011

Today "That Championship Season," which is now being revived on Broadway for the first time, looks like what it is, a quasipolitical cartoon whose smugness stinks like dime-store perfume.

Men Dating Themselves Terry Teachout 2011

In this other I have a dime-store bubble mixture— with a few extra ingredients.

Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

The trick in this business, Ms. Tarantino said, is to elevate a product that might feel dime-store to the level of high fashion.

The Serious Business of Pretty Pink Things Christina Binkley 2011

An unusually ornate 17-room Fifth Avenue apartment owned since 1920s by the family of Samuel H. Kress , the founder of a dime-store empire, has been sold for $26.75 million.

No Dime-Store Price for Kress Home Josh Barbanel 2011

Yet pretending the dime-store trophy we now hold up is what we were all about these past ten years is also like asking us to throw away the whole decade -- and in turn this becomes yet another badge of defeat.

Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War? Michael Vlahos 2011