Word: box
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Thinking Outside the Box...
...examples in I Am a Strange Loop (which is, among many other things, an intellectual autobiography). In the comic strip Nancy, Sluggo has a dream about a dreaming Sluggo, who is also dreaming of Sluggo, and so on in an infinite chain. The girl on the Morton's Salt box holds a Morton's Salt box that has her own image on it, which in turn has a tiny salt box with another girl on it--the series would regress endlessly if her arm didn't get in the way. Goofing around with a video camera, Hofstadter pointed it straight...
...recent Oscar-winning weepies are descendants of the domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
With only two seats in the Bright Center press box reserved for our paper’s three credentialed reporters, one of us rotated out into the stands each period. For the third overtime it was my turn, and I found myself sitting down beside the Harvard bench, one row behind then-University President Lawrence Summers. When Julie Chu scored the nifty backhander to finally win it and Big Larry raised his arms and turned around in exultation, I slapped him an emphatic high...
...CHINESE BOX...