Word: cardboard
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...texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight, by combining black, milky blue and muddy reddish-brown. The spellbinding A Gate shimmers with silvery moonlight, created with white and gray tempera washes on black-painted paper. Despite the gravity...
...bedframe. Some snack food—two packages of Ritz crackers, a row of oranges—adorns the mantle of the common room. Several toiletries stand like chess pieces on the linoleum floor tiles, and the open door to a coat closet nearby reveals a jumble of cardboard boxes...
...case anybody cares, yes, Draco Malfoy is still a cardboard villain who talks as if he's twiddling his mustachio. Yes, the Sorting Hat sings another embarrassingly lame song (Rowling, who has learned so much from Tolkien, should have learned to stay away from poetry). But Rowling does so much right that it's churlish to dwell on her minor missteps. (O.K., one more: Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument...
Noting that Belizeans filled their windows with cardboard to block out the heat, he struck on awnings as a better solution...
...granting police the authority to arrest protesters - in response to strikes for pay increases and job security. Protesters say the strikes will continue until their demands are met. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Fast Food Insults McDonald's sued influential food critic Edoardo Raspelli for saying that its fries tasted like cardboard and its burgers like rubber. The food chain said his comments were "clearly offensive and defamatory." Raspelli, who writes a regular column for La Stampa, refused to back down from his statements and said the food giant was seeking €21 million - the amount it spent on advertising in Italy...