Word: cardboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just know that her early nastiness will require a public confession and that if she mentions she can't swim, she will get embarrassingly wet. But through all the creaky scaffolding, one can catch glimpses of the fine comedy this could have been - if only the characters weren't cardboard, the plot not a course in corrective behavior. Reynolds has a gentle, manly appeal, and Bullock, when Margaret cracks into humanity, lets her charm radiate like a lighthouse beam over a sea of sludge...
...anchor, called the city "Calcutta without the cows." New York was nearly bankrupt, and the President was disinclined to help, provoking the Daily News to the decade's iconic headline, "Ford to City: Drop Dead." An army of the emotionally disturbed, evicted en masse from state mental hospitals, made cardboard-box homes on the streets. Graffiti festooned many tenement buildings and scarred the exteriors and interiors of the city's decrepit transit system. Sitting inside a subway car, with its garish scrawls, was like being trapped in someone's deranged mind, screaming out madness from within its metal walls...
...stuck in the stiff mold Amidon has constructed with his prose. “Stuart was late for class. But he was never late for class”—Amidon often creates his tense mood with rigid contrasts. At times, the dialogue is as flavorless as cardboard, “It’s like I have been spinning my wheels,” says Inman to Kathryn. Are we really to believe that these people are as one-dimensional as Amidon makes them out to be?As his characters hang on to whatever fact they can, Amidon...
...chains began offering them to automobile-loving consumers who didn't want to trek back to their hometown bank to get cash. But it wasn't until the postwar boom of the 1950s that credit cards really caught on. In 1950, Diners Club issued its first card--made of cardboard--for use in 27 restaurants in New York City. A year later, nearly 20,000 Americans carried it in their wallet. American Express, which had specialized in traveler's checks, created its card in 1958; the same year, Bank of America mailed its first 60,000 BankAmericards (now Visas...
...pile under it, halfway boxed-up as if they’d been taken to a tag sale and then brought back unsold. Maybe Andrew’s little brother still uses this room sometimes, but no one’s around at the moment. In a cardboard box they have Starfox, Sonic, Super Mario 2 and Mortal Kombat II. It takes a minute to find the right TV/video setting, but eventually it all works. I play a few rounds of Mortal Kombat against the computer, lose, and turn it off. I decide to go down to the kitchen...