I'm sure that fear will subside with more use and I believe the straps are this way to complete the briefcase-ish feel, but I just don't like the design.
Period furniture, black telephones, sales brochures, a well-worn briefcase and even an early Dictaphone complete the setting.
To Mr. Martin, the perfect machine to help him complete the digital revolution would be "an uplink in a briefcase" that one or two people could manage by themselves in the field.
Let's agree to stop using labels like the "lululemon" mom who doesn't want to work but could, the defeatist "opt-out" mom or the perpetually frazzled working mom complete with briefcase, cell phone and baby on hip.
Wotan's wife Fricka is meanwhile a thoroughly modern, trouser-suited career woman, complete with briefcase; but her bossy nagging has no effect at all on the unreconstructed old rogue, who winds up stripping Brünnhilde to her underwear before injecting her into punitive sleep.
I followed with the briefcase.
Then they blew up the briefcase.
She showed him a portfolio to put inside the briefcase.
What is important is the briefcase.
Is the briefcase really necessary, she asks?
The woman who returns the briefcase is a Polish Jew.
