Word: cardboard
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...marks at all of its skill positions—would risk going up against a gun-slinging upstart, to which it could possibly lose, also defies logic. Throw in the fact that many Bulldogs supporters feel that coach Jack Siedlecki should be packing the contents of his desk into cardboard boxes, and you’ve got the makings of a disastrous opener...
...toddler flipped erratically through a cardboard word book entitled “Water Animals.” Pointing to a dolphin, she said, “I don’t like those...
Alton Brown is interested in how food works, from the chemistry of cured salmon (it involves water-soluble proteins) to the physics of pressure cookers (it involves, um, pressure). Even if you never have to improvise a fish smoker out of a cardboard box, you will enjoy watching him do it. He's the MacGyver of mackerel...
...Whitney Museum of American Art. A big show at a New York City museum can be career making. Or it can play out the way his did. Tuttle was working with the humble materials he favors to this day--wire, string, bits of Styrofoam, matches, scraps of plywood and cardboard--which he lightly assembled into strange little delicacies. Some of the works in that show, like his "rope pieces"--three-inch lengths of clothesline, fluffed a bit at the edges and attached to the wall with three nails--seemed less like works than offhand gestures, the merest residues...
Murrow's antagonists are equally exaggerated. Coleman's Paley is a weak-willed and rather distracted chief executive, hardly the sort of man who founded and built a broadcasting empire. And Stanton, as played by John McMartin, is a cardboard corporate foil, forever jabbering about ratings, opinion polls and bottom lines. "Stanton is fascinated with numbers . . . profit statements . . . power," says Paley, trying to persuade Murrow to accept a vice-presidential position. "You know what I want? A conscience. Integrity...