Most poignantly, in her report on her firsthand experience with systemic poverty, Nickel and
Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich makes us see «poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists
of Doritos or hot dog
rolls, leading to faintness before the end
of the shift.
On a film distributor's
dime, when an actor
rolls up in a sleek black SUV for an interview it's usually in the vicinity
of a red carpet at a big film festival or in front
of a swank hotel laden with free - loading junket journalists.