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Former Lowell resident Natalie Portman, or at least her cardboard cut-out, greeted freshmen, donning a blue Lowell House shirt. “She was before our time, but her presence is still felt very strongly in Lowell,” former HoCo chair Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06 said...
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT you'd had enough of Lucite, architect Frank Gehry and Swiss furniture-design firm Vitra have teamed up to reissue Gehry's iconic 1972 Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture. Included in the group are the Wiggle Side Chair and Low Table Set, above, both of which will be available in white, fluorescent green, orange lacquer and the original cardboard. Gehry has also added a new piece: Block, a solid cube of cardboard with colorfully painted sides. The collection will be available exclusively at Vitra's New York City and San Francisco stores. Prices range from...
...weaknesses as well as its major strengths. There's another inside-Hollywood detour about the movie ambitions of Christopher (Michael Imperioli). (Though it does deliver funny lines: Chris describes his screenplay idea as "Saw meets Godfather II.") And subplots involving fundamentalist Christians and a superstar rapper are tendentious and cardboard. (The latter recalls a season-one story about how hip-hop culture fetishes mafiosi...
Although I was initially intrigued by the racial politics, the political points about police brutality fade into cardboard cut-outs behind the main plot of Moore’s weeping, unstable mother. Viewers don’t take it any more seriously than the movie does. And the movie does not give the real issues the weight they deserve...
...doing freelance car repairs after hours, but after paying his rent and sending more than $1,000 a month to his mother (who plans to build a bathroom with running water), he doesn't have much money left. His only furniture is a mattress and a milk crate. Cardboard does the job of window shades. Octavio speaks just a few words of English and says he lives in fear of his Anglo neighbors, who seem to be constantly scolding him on the street. He thinks they might be mistaking him for one of his housemates, who disrupted the quiet neighborhood...