Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradigm of black communities in South Africa, and its history a parable of the agonies and anomalies of apartheid. For ten years, blacks have streamed into the area and patched together flimsy huts out of odds and ends--bits of wood and plastic, old garbage bags, corrugated iron and cardboard. Most of the settlement's residents were "illegals" from the impoverished government-created tribal homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, which offer no employment, no money and no food. Almost as fast as the blacks kept pouring in, the authorities kept pushing them back, smashing their shacks and returning the illegals...
...internal conflict: Jack Lemmon torn between the desire to save his own skin and that of a seminary student and would-be priest. Mark Dolson, (Zeljko Ivanek) from the blind prejudices of the cranky and overwright Monsignor Burke (Charles Durning), the head of the seminary and of a true cardboard villain worthy of a ten-gallon hat and a black cowboy suit...
...competition tends to breed an eagerness to please. Airborne, for example, supplies special containers to protect magnetic tape and film. Emery offers same-day delivery when requested, though it slaps on a surcharge of at least $150. Clerks at a Federal Express counter in Memphis recall painstakingly building a cardboard shipping container last year for a customer who wanted to ship a fully assembled bicycle just before Christmas...
Transporting the flowers from Dresden was a delicate process. Each model was mounted on cardboard and secured with wire. It was the placed in a cardboard box that was well-padded with tissue paper. Workers placed these containers in large wooden boxes padded with tissue which was then wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than five feet tall...
...said of 2010. Peter Hyams attempt to receive the old classic and explore some of the unanswered questions at the end of the original simply does not stand up. The new film is all too similar to so many of today's films, with an easily digestible plot and cardboard cutout instead of real characters. All the mystery of 2001 is completely lacking in this film...