Word: cardboard
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...girl. An adorable canine with a CGI-ed grin. A daughter and her estranged father. What could go wrong with this tried-and-true feel-good recipe of friendship and adolescence? Not much, but clearly not much can go very right either. With a clichéd plot and cardboard cut-out characters, 20th Century Fox’s Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times bestseller novel of the same name, is an anti-climactic wallow in what never quite approaches small-town charm...
While the day seemed magical, the activity was not unusual for Hwang, who has long explored similarly bizarre hobbies. Earlier this year you could find him sticking dozens of painted cardboard penguins in the grass outside the Science Center, or announcing, through a bullhorn, numbers from the endless sequence of pi. He recently hung a giant eye in his Canaday window overlooking Annenberg, and ominously thundered instructions at the people walking below. The threat was swiftly dealt with by Harvard University Police, who paid him a visit in his room and demanded he cease his activities immediately. Hwang began working...
...from Urban Outfitters. She padded her mattress with a feather bedcover and vibrant pink and orange sheets. A canopy of sheets and lantern lights partitions her bed from her common room, perfect for privacy. Her pride and joy, though, is the headboard, which she constructed by wrapping fabric and cardboard around the bed’s metal frame...
...whites that show a bit of leg. (Nativity scenes and other overtly religious displays are still forbidden by government decree.) Some restaurants in Beijing offer $300-a-plate Christmas dinners that newspapers deride as "money-burning meals." All over China, department stores run Christmas sales and cardboard Santas peer from shop windows...
Turnbull shrugs off his trademark sign proclaiming him “The Chessmaster”—a cardboard slab that he affixes to his table every day with several layers of heavy tape...