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...Cardboard caskets cut costs
...massive pyramids to be the ceremonial resting places of the pharaohs, and countries around the world have long given the dead elaborate burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only...
...Lidholm, who had the idea for it 15 years ago while identifying victims of an airplane accident in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It weighs 60 Ibs., about half as much as a wooden casket, but supports a weight of 800 lbs. Lidholm says that the cardboard one would be particularly useful after natural disasters. In southern Italy, many survivors of last month's earthquake were forced to bury relatives in coffins bought on the black market at high prices...
City officials are storing several tons of clothing donated by Cantabrigians for earthquake victims in southern Italy until they can find more cardboard boxes for packaging...
...father and young son shaving together is so old that it evokes more humor than emotion, yet Simon uses it, as if such banality could evoke even a sigh from the audience, never mind a tear. The same holds for the scenes with the recording executives; they are such cardboard bogeymen, and Jonah is such a stereotypically humble artist/hero, that the tensions between them cannot be depicted realistically. The scenes are simply unbelievable, and without realism in its favor, a movie like this doesn't have a chance...