Word: stapler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes in, Wikler quickly abandons the trusty masking tape method for a mini-stapler he bought at the Coop specifically for postering. When the mini-stapler malfunctions, Wikler is non-plussed...
While Wikler works out his stapler woes, Dreyfus is making his way from Pforzheimer House to Gnomon Copy on Mass. Ave. He too carries a stack of flyers advertising his candidacy--each poster sports a fuzzy logo, filched from the Web site of Dreyfus Mutual Funds, and a one-liner like "Read my lips" or "forty-four forty or fight...
...Plants, like his opponents, is eager to get his flyers up in prominent places too. Seeing posters for a bone marrow registry drive sponsored by the Asian American Brotherhood, he happily pulls out his stapler and tacks his flyers on top of theirs...
...writing tends toward the literate side, but it's boring. The personal revelations are clinically detached and dull ("I walked around naked...I had sex in a car..." and so on, making you expect "I had sex in an outhouse...when I was 12 I masturbated with a stapler" and so forth), and the other intellectual material is less than insightful. The most interesting article on the site at present: Dmitri Nabokov's essay on copyright laws and his father's Lolita...
ISIS, THEREFORE I STAPLE: The Egyptian goddess Isis put her torn-to-pieces husband back together--big shoes for a stapler to fill. But Julian Brown, the British designer of Isis, has a history of creating ambitious office supplies: he gave us Hannibal, the similarly spiffy tape dispenser. When stood on her nose, the front-loading, translucent Isis ($68) rocks gently back and forth, making her the ideal accessory for the desk of the overpaid but underworked...