Word: cardboarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That beautiful White House machine stopped, on the home front at least. It was turned into a private instrument of revenge and fear. Hatred replaced hope. While Ehrlichman's domestic division produced programs, they often were little more than cardboard props. There was no soul in them, no commitment behind them. They languished and no one cared. We now see from Ehrlichman's own testimony that he was busy grappling for power, covering up dirty tricks and investigating the drinking and sexual habits of opponents. Haldeman, as he told it on the Watergate stand, conceived himself...
While the talks went on, Beirut remained under martial law. At the end of the dusk-to-dawn curfew, traffic snarled into monster tangles at checkpoints, as soldiers scanned cardboard lists of suspect license numbers. Crowds were forbidden to gather, and even the pinball parlors (the latest craze in Beirut) were closed. In a government security drive, scores of people were arrested. The government also deported hundreds of foreigners, mostly Syrians, who lacked residence permits...
...Well, last night was an exception. The cardboard carton corrugating unit blew out and we had to call the gang in from the license plate division to bail us out. Unfortunately, they had other ideas and held us hostage under threat of feeding us to Mr. Confetti--the newspaper shredding and bailing machine. In fact, I'd say that at that time I'd have given us about as much chance of gettin' out on the water by 9 p.m. as most people gave us at the Sprints last year, if you know what I mean...
...prison's printing shop, convict Jackson came up with an amazingly good portrait of Andrew Jackson, a nice rear view of the White House and passable reproductions of the filigree found on a U.S. $20 bill. When his sentence expired in March, he loaded up a cardboard box with $16,000 in phony 20s, asked the guard to hold it while he signed out, took back the box, and walked off a free and rich...
...work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms a false profundity...