Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Demonstrators outside the buildings held banners, wore cardboard gravestones of people killed by the Contras, and carried signs with facts about Nicaragua. A banner hanging from a nearby rooftop read: "Help Wanted--terrorists, torturers, rapists, murderers for Contra army. Apply at Central Intelligence Agency, 30 Winter St, Boston...
...cost efficient, or so the East Germans apparently think. Last week the West German government reported that East Germany has abandoned its attempt to man with armed guards the more than 700 watchtowers along the roughly 850-mile German border. Instead, the East Germans are now using life-size cardboard soldiers to scare off would-be Western invaders--and potential defectors. How many of the tower guards are bogus is anyone's guess. "Sometimes they are placed in the towers for only a few hours," says a spokesman for the West German border police. "The idea is to give...
...shanties were torn down early this week, while members of the student activist group Stanford Out of South Africa took shelter from a rain storm, said senior Lisa L. Lynch, an editor of The Stanford Daily. The pro-divestment group Thursday rebuilt the two-structure shantytown out of cardboard boxes, Lynch said...
...room given to Michael and Eileen is packed like a storage cellar with paint cans, a battered cocktail wagon, a shopping cart, cardboard boxes full of clothing, which serve as Michael's chest of drawers, suitcases and a single bed resting on remnants of red carpet...
...children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup toys intended to make their owners feel science fictional. After a night playing...