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alt. A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together. n. A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.
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"Paper Clip" is the second episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by series creator Chris Carter. "Paper Clip" featured guest appearances by Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw and Nicholas Lea. The episode is one of those that explored the overarching mythology, or fictional history of The X-Files. "Paper Clip" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 17.2 million people in its initial broadcast. "Paper Clip" has received highly positive reviews from critics; it is generally considered by both critics and cast/crew as being among the best episodes of the series.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate information gleaned from secret government records, finding that a Nazi scientist working as part of Operation Paperclip may have been responsible for creating a race of human-alien hybrids. "Paper Clip" concludes a three-episode storyline, carrying on from the second season finale " Anasazi" and the third season premiere " The Blessing Way".
The creators of the series likened themes of the episode to the Star Wars trilogy, referring to the revelations about Mulder's father, and Sophie's Choice, referring to how the Mulders were forced to choose Fox or Samantha to be taken.
Paper clip can refer to:
A paper clip is a paper fastener. The term can also mean:
- " Paper Clip"- an episode of The X-Files
- Paper Clips Project - a monument honoring the Holocaust victims and a documentary
- PaperClip - word processor
- Office Assistant - the default Microsoft Office Assistant
- One red paperclip - trading experiment
- Operation Paperclip - codename for the U.S. intelligence plan to extract scientists from Germany during World War II
Usage examples of "paper clip".
He paid his half of the check with bills from a jumbo paper clip that looked like gold.
But when the defendant does something like jump his guards, pick the locks on his chains with the equivalent of a paper clip.
Doug was working a paper clip around and around, nearing its breaking point.
Everything in the room was covered by a thin film of dust, but there wasn't a single scrap of paper, nor so much as a paper clip, left anywhere in the entire space.
Once inside, she stuck a bent paper clip into the keyhole of the old door hardware and shot the bolt, a skill she had picked up through long practice at the age of eight.
You can do a little experimenting with this space using your paper clip.
Hold onto one end of the paper clip and stick the clip between the two strips.
Now run the paper clip all the way around the loop, following the space between the strips.
The paper clip has just followed a Mobius strip, encountering no obstacles along the way.
Carefully, he unbent the paper clip and inserted one end into the hole.
Colonel Cotton is the man who saved one of the $350 million experimental XB-70s by short-circuiting a computer with a paper clip.
While the plane circled the base and engineers on the ground radioed careful instructions, Joe Cotton took a flashlight and a paper clip and crawled into the dark landing-gear bay to perform critical surgery in a maze of wires and relays.
The objects were nothing more than scraps of metal, wood shavings, a broken paper clip, torn shreds from the Yellow Pages, thumbtacks.