Word: cardboard
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Islamic terrorism has once again cast a shadow on the U.K., although this time the terrorists brandish cardboard weapons, wear shimmering pink burkas and intimidate their enemies with a high-kicking chorus line...
...Stationed as they are beside an inflatable figure of a boxer, a couple of cardboard boxes, and some old posters of UC-sponsored events featuring Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, they hardly appear to be anything except another bit of refuse, a relic of a hasty move-in. But to the members of the UC, these binders are the archives, and—with the UC currently in its 25th session—some of them are verging on a quarter-of-a-century...
...norms of New York’s longest-running musical. The trappings of the production consisted of no more than a handful of minimal, stylized props that evoked a nostalgic idea of young love—and this gave the production a fittingly traditional tone. Indeed, without its characteristic cardboard moon, handfuls of confetti, and brightly-colored cloth draped across the black pipe structure that is the central set piece. “The Fantasticks” would have been an altogether different show. Yet adherence to these traditions was not free from controversy. One song...
Last week’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the Congressional ban on “partial-birth abortion” was the focus of an unconventional protest at Harvard Law School yesterday, when students from a law seminar carried a black cardboard coffin, symbolizing the decision in that case, through the rain from Langdell Hall to the Charles River. The group of seven women and one man who put on the mock funeral procession called themselves Women Against the Majority Opinion. They wore black and handed out fliers describing their protest as they walked through the streets...
...dimensionality. All she wants is power and sex. (As Ignatius is fond of repeating, “Her appetite for sex was remarkable.”) She exists only to provide the steamy moments needed for the Hollywood adaptation the publishers are banking on. Even without such distracting cardboard characters, the book would be weighed down by Ignatius’ inane language and the dialogue. His wordy and cringe-worthy sentences are burdened by odd uses of colloquialisms, and his dialogue seems to be little more than filler. Still, even with a disappointing plot, terrible characters, and poor language, Ignatius?...