Word: rubes
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...getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality and hard-nosed policing (reality) can coexist. It's not that she doesn't think they can, but that it doesn't matter--they're no threat, he's just another rube, another biped bovine...
...your two-room quarters in the office park. This holiday season, computers are packed with such goodies as 333-MHz speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print and copy, like the Xerox Document WorkCenter 450CP and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3100 seen on these pages, stuff these common office duties into compact boxes that easily fit on a shelf and sell for less than $500. And traditional monitors nowadays are coming down...
...distinguished dining room, in its last years it had grown tawdry. The famous butter-patted ceiling was looking more dirty than distinguished; the paint was peeling off the walls; the rotunda was encased with God-awful green-blue floral curtains; and the tray return area was a steam-filled Rube Goldberg contraption...
WEAK POINT: Rube Goldberg-like take-offs and landings, utilizing a flimsy bicycle landing-gear arrangement. Pogo outriggers support the wings and drop away when the plane lifts off. On landing, "it's like riding a bike off the back end of a flatbed truck at 70 m.p.h.," says U-2 pilot Major Jeff Jungemann. As the plane descends, another pilot races behind it in a Chevy Camaro, radioing to the plane's pilot his distance to the runway...
...distinguished dining room, in its last years it had grown tawdry. The famous butter-patted ceiling was looking more dirty than distinguished; the paint was peeling off the walls; the rotunda was encased with God-awful green-blue floral curtains; and the tray return area was a steam-filled Rube Goldberg contraption...