Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHAT'S the point? This is a ridiculously bad movie; I saw it on Tuesday and by the time you read this column it will probably have completely vanished from the theaters, only to reappear Monday in cardboard boxes on video stores shelves throughout the nation. If there is any justice in this forsaken world, the cellophane will go undisturbed until the Apocalypse, when the damned souls will be forced to watch it for eternity...
...them willingly cross the border for the opportunity to perform "slave labor." There, in Tijuana, she would have seen not workers picking oranges for a few dollars an hour, but people begging for food; not housekeepers living in the "slave" quarters of fancy homes, but wretched families living in cardboard shacks that wash away in the winter floods; not gardeners driving beat-up Chevy's, but beat-up human beings for whom the prospect of owning a car is a hopeless dream...
...ordered as Grenoble and Lyons look like those in Naples. Among the throngs of stranded passengers, French families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled across the sign in Latin "Mirabile Dictu...
Floppy disks for personal computers generally come in bare-bones cardboard cases; the imagination all goes into the programming. For the Ability software package, though, Toronto's Spencer/Francey Group has designed a clever casing in black mat plastic that alludes to the injection-molding process itself: the shapes of computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith...
Gould says the Yankee legend's public didn't want to acknowledge his problems because the nature of the sport was so different at the time. "Sports biography was strictly cardboard heroism. Mantle's near alcoholism was seen as high spirits," he says...