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Three months later, it isn't much clearer. Fox is so new to his position that last week his hallway was still full of cardboard boxes, and he was still talking about refurnishing the office his predecessor had vacated...
...have to come to us for something garish." So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor. The latest in nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world's most illustrious jewels and jewel collectors...
There is no way of telling that New York is busted. There is nothing missing that I can see and a lot I never expected. Some prices are awfully high, but other things are free. Each delegate will be given a cardboard suitcase stuffed with guidebooks, information about New York and a free pass for subways, buses and trains. We are also receiving some nice presents from stores. Medical and legal help is available 24 hours a day. A New York host is assigned to each state delegation and helps us get tickets for the theater and sports events. Even...
While my friend was in the archives she wrote me that she came across a bit of a problem with documents and the archivist: "Pretty soon the man comes tottering back wiping cobwebs off a sort of cardboard box with hinges. Inside are piles of documents from the 1400s coated with dust and encased in rubber bands, bits of strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them...
...from (of course) Washington to John Adams and Aaron Burr, as well as portraits of some of the American painters for whom they sat. Each personality has a facing page of biography. The faces often encourage long and fascinated scrutiny. The biographies, though they are mostly fashioned of pure cardboard, help a good deal to familiarize the reader with the names and numbers of some of the lesser rebel players in the War of Independence...