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Word: cardboarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot thickens from here--or rather, it becomes mush Guy falls for a beautiful attache at the British Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Bigger Than Hollywood | 2/22/1983 | See Source »

...inspire plays, books and lyrics, the beautiful blond whom Norman Mailer called "the sweet angel of sex" is being all but drowned in a flood of tacky tribute. Boutiques and stores from San Francisco to Rome have found an apparently inexhaustible market for such mementos as life-size cardboard stand-ups, 3-D posters, calendars, bed sheets, shopping bags, masks, hot-water bottles ("Take me to bed. I will keep you warm"), piggy banks, pepper shakers, ashtrays, pillboxes (a cruel touch), shower curtains and, yes, negligees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Manufacture of Marilyn | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...good writer can construct a play out of cardboard and paste, and, in the right hands, even the flimsiest plot can be turned into an amusing and diverting evening in the theater. But such hands have not come anywhere near this English import, which opened on Broadway last week. Rarely has so very little been made of so very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wrong Number | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

This recipe is for a 9 x 13 pan, but use whatever equivalents you have. If you use a lightweight aluminum pan, place a large piece of stiff cardboard underneath the pan so that it won't be difficult to life when it is full of unset gelatin...

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Recipes for a Dorm Room | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest, $150 per couple. For $18,000, the hall provided the Takahashis with food, invitations, thank-you notes, photographs, kimono and formal wear. The 5-ft. wedding cake, however, was cardboard, except for the bride's traditional slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Wedding Every 20 Minutes | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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