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...more ambitious essay in shadow and substance. The black and tan model and black and grey artist-who, unlike clean-shaven, square-cut Braque, sported a spade beard and cheroot-both wavered in uncertain silhouette against the grey and yellow wallpaper. At one moment the figures seemed thin as cardboard; at another they became block-solid...
...flock's big, heavenly real-estate holdings. Making a visitation with his blonde wife and some of his "angels," he announced a new regime in Lorraine management: no drinking, profanity, or smoking, segregation of the sexes by floors. To a $25,000 cash deposit, the purchasing angels added cardboard boxes containing small bills. After two hours, four bank employees had counted...
...well as making specific exams more easily accessible. When Lamont gets settled, perhaps the problem could be transferred there. The exams could be filed alphabetically at the reading desk. And since the exams do not come on uniform-sized paper, it would be convenient to paste the exams on cardboard sheets. Anyone who wanted to look at an exam could sign for it. The bound copies of finals ought to be kept here too, with duplicates in reserve...
...strong-mindedness demanded by the role. But Goodbye, My Fancy, after a bright beginning, becomes here a little too slick and there a little too slack. Playwright Kanin so much admires the characters with principles that she has no feeling for the characters with problems; she seems both a cardboard crusader and a complacent one. But the very shallowness of the play proves a kind of virtue: the whole thing can just be considered entertainment...
Back at the airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...