Word: cardboard
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...procedure was simple enough. Hilary and Ginny both wiped the insides of their cheeks with cotton-tipped wooden swabs--Ginny, so that her DNA could be isolated from George's--and sealed them in cardboard boxes. When they were finished, Ginny asked...
...lettuce leaves and representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals handed out flyers while delegates nearby tucked into huge slabs of meat at the Butcher Shop and Grill restaurant. On the pavement outside, Solar Cookers International showed passers-by how to cook with a piece of silver cardboard and a pot. Solar cook Danielle Kahn reminisced about the first world environment conference in Rio de Janeiro 10 years ago. "That was when people really got ideas down on paper," she said. "Now it's the same ideas. We've just got to start acting upon them...
...with a psychologist while researching his part. "We're loading this character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded him--is just a healthier manifestation of his malady: he needs to impose order on a world that inexorably tends toward entropy. Is that crazy...
...recent Microsoft conference, Ballmer appeared on stage, bursting out of a huge white cardboard cake. At another conference, Ballmer pranced around the stage, gesticulating wildly and chanting the word “developers” no fewer than 14 times...
...middle of the store sits a cardboard box filled with oversize, bug-eyed sunglasses, straight from the ’70s. On shelves lining the walls are arrayed Marilyn Monroe lunchboxes and statuettes of Elvis Presley standing next to a Harley Davidson motorbike. Behind the counter, a shelf holds fancy hairbrushes, combs and perfumes that can usually be found only in Europe...