Next door, however, at the Mid-Manhattan lineary, the line for checkout was thirty people strong, their arms laden with paper-and-ink-and-glue books—heavy loads, to be sure, but no one was complaining.
Next door, however, at the Mid-Manhattan lineary, the line for checkout was thirty people strong, their arms laden with paper-and-ink-and-glue books — heavy loads, to be sure, but no one was complaining.
She spent two weeks capturing a series of images that transmute the tedium of everyday life – a pile of teetering books, a desk laden with papers, a man trudging towards a lighthouse in the polar night – into the stuff of fairy tales.
On Saturday night, the sight of a dump truck emerging from the Cairo compound laden with shredded paper sent protesters into a fury, creating the momentum that drove the crowd past the army soldiers outside and into the hastily abandoned main building.
Suitcases laden with brightly colored papers, stickers and packs of photographs sat by their sides.
There were rolls of Osama bin Laden toilet paper (with Wipe Out Terror! on every sheet), and T-shirts bearing the slogan "I survived the attack" - purchased, of course, by tourists who had survived it only in the sense of having been hundreds of miles away at the time.
But my morning paper, laden with science, also carries evidence of our distrust of science and our search for another kind of healing.
When we arrive, the dining room table, which quickly gets transformed to make room for us, is laden with rolls of translucent paper through which one can glimpse architectural angles, bits of sloping land and plants and spurts of water.
Uncles and friends, cousins and second cousins, and cousins who knows how many times removed pulled folding chairs up to folding tables, which were covered with paper tablecloths and laden with fried chicken and sweet tea.
As participants trooped in for a chapel service before dinner, two dozen volunteers formed a double line, welcoming each arrival with a handshake and a "Happy Thanksgiving!" Later, paper plates laden with turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and green beans were passed down long tables, and volunteers circulated with big pitchers of punch.
Whereas it used to be all about the Open University and postal staff laden with syllabuses, reading lists and papers, the internet is becoming firmly established as the medium for a virtual university through which students can watch lectures, receive assignments, exchange notes and socialise.
