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...unexpected present, reserved for occasional weekend nights and special celebrations. For my First Communion I had a decadent chocolate cake from Alden Merrill. The physical bread meant little to me, the sour-smelling wine even less, when compared to the stunningly sweet pastel packaged neatly in a cardboard box and stored safely in the basement refrigerator. I can still picture myself carving into the smooth fudge that formed the outer layer of the cake. The contrast between my crisp white dress, with its eyelet detail and simple lace ribbons, and the mouth-watering brown-black icing made the moment...
...room, white file boxes are piled up to the ceiling, with a life-size cardboard Veritas shield and a Chinese fan floating amid the files...
...procedure was simple enough. Hilary and Ginny both wiped the insides of their cheeks with cotton-tipped wooden swabs--Ginny, so that her DNA could be isolated from George's--and sealed them in cardboard boxes. When they were finished, Ginny asked...
...lettuce leaves and representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals handed out flyers while delegates nearby tucked into huge slabs of meat at the Butcher Shop and Grill restaurant. On the pavement outside, Solar Cookers International showed passers-by how to cook with a piece of silver cardboard and a pot. Solar cook Danielle Kahn reminisced about the first world environment conference in Rio de Janeiro 10 years ago. "That was when people really got ideas down on paper," she said. "Now it's the same ideas. We've just got to start acting upon them...
...with a psychologist while researching his part. "We're loading this character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded him--is just a healthier manifestation of his malady: he needs to impose order on a world that inexorably tends toward entropy. Is that crazy...