Sales of tablets and smartphones have grown rapidly in the past year, as has an increasing dependence on "the cloud", with our information stored on the internet rather than on a weighty box sitting on a desk.
Two of the earlier pieces, "Inside I" and "Inside II," from 1967, are small but weighty looking ash-gray boxes, one holding nothing more than bits of wire, the other a pair of rough, potato-shaped lumps.
By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, May 23 , 1942P. 7 A Harvard lad writes to say that as he was leaving a lecture at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, he saw in the U. S. O. book-collection a box a handsome, weighty tome entitled "Who's Who Along the North Shore, Or A Register of the Interesting, Fashionable, and Wealthy Residents of the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay for the summer of 1920".
There is even a weighty, hardbound, four-book, 1,000-page, box-set catalog to remind us of just how important Mr. Dine is.
Organ Attack comes in a box that looks like a weighty medical tome, but there's no knowledge required—just a tabletop, 2-6 plandrs, and 20 minutes.
Rolls-Royce now earns more from tasks such as managing clients' procurement strategies and maintaining the aerospace engines it sells than it does from making them.Cynics say box-tickers have benefited lavishly from the weighty stacks of regulation that have been pumped out since the crisis.
A modest coffee table is placed in front of it, on which sits a leather box of tissues and a set of weighty silver coasters.
Far more intriguing are Houdini's own main props: a weighty steamer trunk, an oversize milk can and a vertical, coffinlike box with a glass front.
That means multi-disc box sets that are not so much compiled as "curated", often with a weighty book attached that contains archive photos and a mini-history lesson of the artist's career.
It just ticks all the boxes for me; the old school drum breaks, the Kathy Brown sample, the quiet, calming break-down, and then that weighty bass line.
