Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Abrahams represents "a different God and a different mountain." As Cross plays the stereotypical Jew, so Gielgud plays the stereotypical Cambridge/Oxford master: stiff collar, talk of good sportsmanship, supercilious expression, after-dinner liqueur. His upper-crust old-schoolishness lacks a human spark; consequently the character appears a flat cardboard mockup of the real thing...
Ultimately, we conclude that in developing her outline for the nove, McCullough never fully defined her theme or her goals. We could have accepted her conception of the hospital base as a nondescript, cardboard background against which the characters of Ward X were meant to shine and attract our undivided attention. But in the course of the novel whe provides us with several extraneous alternative story lines. By the end, the novel has become only in part, the story of Honour Langtry, a 30-year-old nurse who has devoted her life to duty--"the indecent obsession." Langtry's sense...
...city. The candidate would gather everyone from the neighborhood at Thompson's Grove for a picnic, a ball game, and a pledge of undying loyalty through election day. And there were thousands of slate cards for kids to hand voters as they entered the polls, palm-sized pieces of cardboard with the proper names on them just in case anyone had forgotten...
...cornpone accent and all, as the other woman, a Southern civil rights lawyer who falls in love with Alan Alda, a liberal Senator from New York. But to be convincing is merely to be competent, and Streep managed to give enough humanity to a routine role that when the cardboard Senator predictably told her that he was returning to his cardboard wife, viewers worried about what would become of the seductress...
...beginning of a $5 million emergency relief effort by the organization. Poland thus became the only non-Third World country currently receiving any kind of aid from CARE and the first in 14 years to get the traditional package: a 13 in. by 13 in. by 6% in. cardboard box containing about 23 lbs. of basic foods, including canned meat, cooking oil, rice, sugar, flour, powdered milk and split peas. Some 600,000 packages, costing $12 each and funded by private donations from the U.S., Europe and Scandinavia, will be distributed in Poland over the next year...