Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week ending May 21, the statistics from the Harvard University Police Department report to homicides, sudden deaths, or rapes; eight thefts over $100, seven thefts less than $100, one robbery, nine instances of vandalism, and one assault provoked during an argument over a cardboard box in a rubbish cart...
...example, came to the authorities' attention when they tried to bribe a bank president not to report their deposits to the IRS. Some South Florida banks, generally small, quiet and unadvertised, are notorious as money "launderers" Local cocaine traders are sometimes brazen, sauntering into Miami banks carrying suitcases or cardboard boxed overflowing currency. Indeed, the city's banks have been embarrassingly awash in cash, much of it cocaine profits. In late 1981, the local Federal Reserve branch had a $5 billion surplus of currency, more excess cash than was in the dozen other Fed branches combined. Suddenly, in early...
...delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...
...Large cardboard figures of a man and a woman, one standing on each side of the set, symbolize in a simple way the inevitability of the marriage. As Podkolyossin's marriage plans are discussed, the cardboard man holds out a hand to the unresponsive woman. When the cardboard female faces the male, it is Agafya's turn to talk of marriage and review her suitors. The two cardboard figures face each other in Act III, and the marriage is arranged. The pattern is obvious to all but the youngest in the audience...
...better seen than read, in music, it's all supremely entertaining. The Boys From Syracuse abounds with laughs (the weakest song, "You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea," is the lease witty,) but the comedy never becomes relentless. The characters while obviously comic types, never degenerate into mere cardboard cutouts to be manipulated according to the exigencies of plot, they don't have three dimensional life, but thanks to the music they at least gain two dimensional animation...