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  • And as I was ending my third hit of the evening, who should come down to the first-floor studio — as isolating as a skinnerbox, it is — but last-presser-breakout-star Sam Stein.

    TV Casualty | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • This is what motivates humans to toil at tedious skinnerbox-like tasks, whether in the real or virtual space.

    Chains of Contract 2006

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