It is true that her "mainstream" Republican opponent, Sue Lowden, looked pretty extreme herself when she proposed bartering chickens for health care.
Premise: Promising Chicago surgeon (Jordana Spiro) is drawn into the mafia when she decides to barter her services to pay off her ne'er-do-well brother's gambling debts.
With absolutely no advance word of mouth, no helpful co-stars, and a trailer that has been getting unintentional laughs in theaters for months now (as my wife likes to say when she sees the posters, "Who runs Barter Town? Gary Oldman runs Barter Town!"), The Book of Eli isn't going to have the stuff to take out our favorite blue warriors.
Neighbors suspected that Alphonsine's father had "sold" her to the other man, a story that seemed all too likely given that Marin had already reportedly tried to barter for her with a band of Gypsies (when she was 11) and a troupe of mountebanks (when she was 13).
The consignor had been a neighbor of his when she was growing up in Los Angeles and remembers that in 1973 her parents bartered their Volkswagen Beetle with a stick shift for two pieces of Hammons' mixed-media art.
Grimes was 22 when she made this album and set about engineering her own image: she places that kawaii-like cutesy vocal artifice alongside a hard-edged androgyny in an era where women in pop are, depressingly, expected to barter with their bodies as much as their talent.
Ms. Clancy recalls that when she moved to New York more than 20 years ago and was working on a low-budget film in a loft on Van Dam Street, her group would barter set materials for food from a neighbor, the director David Cronenberg.
So she's getting creative; when the Pavlof Volcano erupted violently on the Alaska Peninsula in March of this year, she bartered a box of fresh fruit for a trashcan of ash collected by locals.
It is said that she bartered her second child to a local tradesman for a wooden button.
Ms. Bowling says she barters as a lifestyle choice as much as out of economic need.
Besides the pot and paintings she sells residents, she barters to make a living.
