Word: tinfoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson fights back boredom and depression by throwing himself into habits and hobbies. Each morning he obsessively cleans the sleeping mats and takes spirited 40-minute walks around and around the room. When he fashions a chess set from scraps of tinfoil, the guards take the game away. Anderson takes French lessons from Sutherland, and stays up all night reading the Bible and novels by Charles Dickens that the guards provide...
...Maddox, "we began by thinking that someone was playing a trick on Benveniste. Our minds were not so much closed as unready to change our whole view of how science is constructed." Notebooks were photographed, researchers videotaped, and vials juggled and secretly coded. Incredibly, the codes were wrapped in tinfoil, sealed in an envelope and stuck on the ceiling so Benveniste and his colleagues could not read them...
...final complaint: the quality of the sets is abysmal. No matter how hard up for cash a theatre company may be, the use of tinfoil should absolutely be held to a minimum. The only thing tinfoil does for a set is to yell "I am cheap!" Also, it ought to be suggested to the New Ehrlich that they hire a carpenter who can make a table balance on four legs instead of three. The production wobbles enough...
...keeping my hopes up. Tinfoil is supposed to be pretty effecting against nuclear radiation, so I'm convering my windows. Once I figure out how to rig up a microwave, we won't even need the foil. I just hope the MBTA keeps on running...
...quips something that's not-so-funny. And during lunch, a man who also works in the dining room--he's the aged guy, with a slightly arched back who stands around in his red coat--comes over to Corbat and gives him some present all wrapped up in tinfoil. The guy in the red coat paternally pats him on the shoulder and walks away...