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...continued to bleed, and died before noon. Her husband arose and left, and the baby, still caked with blood, was left alone on the mat. "Without breast-feeding she is going to die," said one relief worker, swaddling the baby in a cloth wrap and leaving her in a cardboard box in the corner of a tent...
...however, as Simpson awaits his arraignment, he faces long, tedious days in his cell, a beige, windowless room measuring 9 ft. by 7 ft. and furnished only with an iron bunk and a stainless-steel toilet next to a sink. A cardboard box on the floor, containing papers and letters, and the odd apple or orange complete the decor. As a protective-custody inmate, Simpson is denied access to mess halls, rooftop exercise areas or even the chapel. His only breaks are two hour-long periods of activity in the "freeway" of the corridor. There he can use the public...
Although we cannot see Zelman's face throughout part of his shoe-tying fiasco, we understand what this whole thing is supposed to communicate. The shoe tying is taken further when Gus finds a peice of cardboard in one shoe and an old pack of cigarettes stuffed into the other one. This scene creates the picture of Gus as a version Lenny from John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
...against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively in Albanian warehouses. Last week the government announced a solution: millions of volumes will be reprocessed into cardboard. The dustbin for his history draws closer...
...girlfriend and I would hear themscratching at night against the cardboard," Hallsays...