Hints and tips:
...The two had regularly corresponded in the early 1990s during Pope’s stint on the UFO desk, later meeting in person during a screening of the alien autopsy footage in 1995....
...I spy some fabulous uranium glass versions too: I’ve always adored that alien shade of yellow-green....
...Action Office desk (1964) George Nelson designed the Action Office desk for Herman Miller high enough to use while standing up, to promote concentration and creativity, long before the ergonomic benefits...
...In the FT office at lunchtime, I’d see colleagues sitting at their desks eating what looked like plastic bags, but which, on closer inspection, turned out to be sandwiches....
...That mobile office is the XYZ Cargo Mobile Office Trike — a low-carbon machine for working from anywhere, complete with desk, stool and solar electricity panels from Danish artist collective N55....
...When I’m dropped off at my hotel in Garachico, the suitcase I’d left at a reception desk in San Cristóbal de La Laguna that morning magically awaits....
...In many ways, this empire seems quite alien. Whatever happens, Trump will not become a god. Yet, suggests Beard, some aspects of the Roman empire are enduring features of any autocracy....
...This is my “dad” — that alien epithet — standing at the base of the stairs, calling up to my mum, who is out of sight, somewhere on the first floor....
...Polosukhin, a science fiction fan from Kharkiv in Ukraine, believed self-attention was a bit like the alien language in the film Arrival, which had just recently been released....
...But I wasn’t being bombarded by images of them doing their homework in effortlessly stylish outfits at aesthetically pleasing desks, while also carrying on fulfilling social and romantic lives....
...On his second day in office, Churchill ordered the arrest and internment, without trial, of thousands of “enemy aliens”, mostly on the Isle of Man....
...Suddenly the sculptures became faceless — “alien, morbid, dreadful” — she recalls. The exhibition’s misfires come in its more didactic parts....
...In 2019, I came across a book on a colleague’s desk titled Radical Candor, written by a former Google and Apple executive named Kim Scott....
...When recycling bins are placed next to office workers’ desks with visible signs, recycling suddenly rises....
...was Antoine Fuqua’s remake of Gustav Möller’s 2018 Danish film The Guilty, with Jake Gyllenhaal taking the role of a disgraced policeman who takes a call from a distressed woman after being demoted to desk...
...The reporters remain at their desks, as post-match press conferences take place over Zoom....
...If they failed to stay at their desk, how safe would their job be if their company started the cutbacks ripping through their industry?...
...Simply: “Lets see them aliens”. The post is, sadly, in jest. But the US Air Force still appears perturbed....
...Those backgrounds of algae greens, timber veneer panelling, geometric-patterned carpets, official-looking desks with brimming ashtrays and poky, grimly lit kitchens have been dimming down our TV screens...
...(Bloomberg) The awkward but essential art of office chit-chat (NYT) Have aliens found us?...
...A Republican aide said: “Not only are Dems refusing any new physical barriers, they’re insisting on new ICE limits that would force the release of criminal aliens, including violent felons, not just people...
...The partnership made excellent returns for a few years by doing things that were alien to Buffett’s usual approach: borrowing heavily and laying off thousands of employees....
...There was little bickering between Republicans and Democrats during the session, an alien world of civility on display....
...Of course the great box of the TV was a piece of furniture even without a purpose-built cabinet and its aerial a thing of no beauty at all, a weird, alien antenna which would need to be fiddled with, bent...
...Within days I had acquisitioned a desk that I considered my own, and each morning sat in the café drinking coffee and eating a pastry filled with apples or poppyseed paste....
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