Word: balsa
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...While The Man has been busy working for our money, we all have started wearing khakis and eating in subtly trendy, balsa wood trimmed restaurants that are lit by tiny orbs of track lighting...
Another problem calls for making a weight-bearing, balsa-wood structure that's as light as possible. The problem that John's team chose called for not only a Shakespearean flavor but also a historical event, a technical element and a humorous character. Oh, and did I mention the song, with original music and lyrics...
...reflectors. Records showed that one such balloon train was launched on June 4 and was tracked to within 20 miles of the Foster ranch before it disappeared from the radar scopes in mid-June. Even more telling, Moore reported, the corner reflectors were put together with beams made of balsa wood and coated with "Elmer's-type" glue (to strengthen them). Also, he noted, the New York toy company that manufactured the reflectors had reinforced the seams with leftover tape that Moore recalled had "pinkish-purple abstract flower-like designs"--markings that Major Marcel could have interpreted as hieroglyphics...
...have about six wasted rooms in our house," Spielberg says, "because we just live in the kitchen." On one wall hangs a large board that notes everyone's activities, from karate lessons and art classes to Dad's location shoots; nearby, behind safety glass, is one of the original balsa-wood Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane. "There's also this couch," says Capshaw, "which is Steven Central. He has a bunch of scripts to read, and tapes--casting reels, dailies, bits of animation--that he pops into the VCR. But if one of the kids asks him to build...
...much while leaving us yearning for much more. We learn to make a variety of wreaths, all of which, astonishingly, are different from the ones displayed in her magazine's special November wreath issue. We see the holiday doyen package her Christmas cookies--alas, no recipes--in handsomely beribboned balsa-wood containers (not like those tacky doily-lined tins they throw at us on the Food Network). Best of all, we discover that Martha herself is far from infallible. "Do you know what I did last year?" she confides to her forester, "I covered my entire tree in blue angel...