Word: cardboard
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Unemployment Olympians must show proof of their unemployment in the form of a New York State unemployment card, a termination letter or other evidence of job loss. They register for events at the "Unemployment Office," a lopsided cardboard stand that looks like a recession-weary version of Lucy's "Doctor is in" leomonade stand from Peanuts...
...alleged cause of the disruption was the recent pre-Housing Day tradition of launching lit cardboard boats bearing the names of desired Houses into the Charles. Embarkations began around 10:30 p.m., with many freshmen blocking groups arriving at the water’s edge hauling elaborate, multi-tiered creations...
...proponents say digital 3-D is a different animal from the analog stuff that came before 2005. Viewers often wore cardboard glasses with red and cyan cellophane lenses (similar to but somewhat different from what you see in this magazine). As just about everyone knows, old-school 3-D was less than awesome. Colors looked washed out. Some viewers got headaches. A few vomited. "Making your customers sick is not a recipe for success," Katzenberg likes...
...theater side. It leases out a kind of digital shutter system that sits in front of digital projectors, alternating the two views of each frame 144 times per sec.--fast enough to achieve stereovision. The new system uses polarization, rather than color-coding. Gone are the completely cheesy cardboard glasses, replaced with slightly less cheesy disposable plastic-frame glasses that have gray lenses. "Someday," predicts Katzenberg, "people will buy their own movie glasses, which they'll take to the movies--like people have their own tennis rackets...
Chaos is the sheer amount of nail polish remover, Axe body spray, and high-proof liquor that soaked the multi-tiered cardboard boats flung into the Charles last night...