Saddled with a nagging wife and a keening, deformed baby (played by a puppet that resembles the mutant infant of "Eraserhead"), Frankie sets out to find a few bucks to pay the rent on his rancid apartment.
These transactions can be cleanly divided into two: there were the wild, flush years, in which Manafort appears to have had more money than he knew what to do with, and the broke years, in which Manafort was taking increasingly frantic risks to find a few bucks.
It's always a thrill to find an Old Etonian bucking the socal mobility trend by getting on in this depressingly egalitarian age, though whether Letwin is well cast as Whitehall's Dirty Harry is another matter.
This means that whenever capital can find a way to turn a buck without employing a human, it will take it, whether it be with robots in factories, automated checkouts at supermarkets or drones to deliver packages.
If a thief finds a few bucks in your pocket, that won't be such a big deal if you've got a couple hundred split between both shoes, your bag, your undies, and sewed into the head of your hat.
Big Books that cost $15-$15-$25 be found for a buck or two, REALLY!
Nobody can find a face to pin it on - a place where the buck stops and finds a truer value.
You could make a movie or a record and work part-time, and you could find an apartment for 160 bucks a month.
Gerard Lynn says he has found a way to buck the prices at the gas pump.
Astronomers have found a few stars that buck this trend, seeming to have velocities that will eventually take them out of the galaxy all together.
