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Among other things, I learned that what a middle-aged college professor thinks of as down-to-earth examples of economics in action might not always sound quite so down to earth to the ordinary college freshman, and that I had to have more examples the clientele could relate to--which means, in particular, sports . One focus group member suggested that the market for "scalped" sports tickets was a good example of supply and demand in action.
Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.
Although cultural activity has been under state control since the revolution and Havana no longer sizzles with the sleazy Mafia-funded casinos and clubs of the 1950s, both high culture and more down-to-earth nightlife thrive in Cuba.
Borba, on the road to Elvas and Spain, is more down-to-earth, though its marble buildings betray the source of the local wealth:
The film also reflects Selena's down-to-earth style, at least as described in media accounts and in such books as the unauthorized biography Selena: Como la Flor (1996), by Joe Nick Patoski, a senior editor at Texas Monthly . Selena the movie ticks off the points made in numerous profiles.