Word: cardboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mail Boxes Etc. has two locations in Cambridge, both on Mass. Ave. The store closer to the Harvard Square T station offers two standard cardboard boxes, the UPS2 and the UPS4. According to Kenneth R. White, a salesperson at Mail Boxes Etc., the UPS2 and UPS4 are best suited for computers and clothing, respectively. But at $5.45 and $3.89 each, the boxes are slightly more expensive. The store also carries the entire gamut of styrofoam stuffing and a wide variety of tape...
...weapons and toward the stairs. At the same moment other plastic-explosive charges blasted more openings from the tunnels into the interior of the residence. Still others blew open on each side of the building's exterior, and one ripped up the back garden. "The whole house shook like cardboard," an army lieutenant says, and smoke billowed into the sky as automatic weapons clattered...
...tastes good, although some people think it tastes like cardboard," he admits...
...says, seemed to be focusing his attention on the balcony where King's aides were hovering around the fallen civil rights leader. Caldwell lost track of him in the confusion. His account is in line with the story told by Harold ("Cornbread") Carter, who was drinking wine in a cardboard shelter near the flophouse when the killing occurred. Carter claimed a white man with a rifle walked right past him to the foot of the embankment--precisely where Caldwell spotted a crouching figure--and fired at the motel. Yet the FBI never interviewed Caldwell and wrote off Carter's tale...
...which had opened to phenomenal business. And from the moment of the opening crawl, I was baffled. All these dense factoids about Galactic Empires and Death Stars--it was like some nightmare of a pop quiz in a course I hadn't taken. The sets were Formica, the characters cardboard; the tale had drive but no depth, a tour at warp speed through an antiseptic landscape. I admired George Lucas' attention to detail, his Tolkien-like industry in creating a host of alien life-forms, but I remained unmoved. Peering at Star Wars through the telescope of my disinterest...