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...Minnesota Republican Rudy Boschwitz, who made his fortune selling plywood, claimed assets of between $5.5 million and $6.2 million...
...promises, and its influence persists to this day. Sculpture had been solid since paleolithic man made his fertility dolls, indeed since God made Adam out of clay; it now became a matter of intersecting planes, of wires springing through space, and airy conjunctions of industrial materials-sheet metal, plywood, Celluloid, Bakelite. "Matter is dissolved into pure planes and 3 lines, penetrating each other, devoid of mass and transparent," wrote Author Alexander Dorner in 1931. "Thus instead of a space filled with solid mass . . . a space appears as the crisscrossing of streams of movements and streams of events." Just...
Velona opened the hollow, plywood door labelled 'Chapel' and sat down in the dimly-lit room near the Scientology cross. The verticle bar of the cross, according to Velona, symbolizes the "transcendence of spirituality over the world," while the four points at the end of the two bars of the cross represent four of the faith's eight dynamics. These eight dynamics stress the dedication and protection of one's self, of the family, the group, mankind, plants and animals, material objects, other spiritual beings and the "supreme being." According to Velona, the questions of right and wrong...
Although the story is a somewhat amateurish mess and the characters are made of plywood, Truscott's book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...
...earlier life Star Trek was produced for $186,000 per show. Stars were holes punched in black paper, the crew was beamed in and out of the ship with simple light tricks, and the instrument boards were plywood. Whole shows were done on one set to save money. "I'd have blown my whole budget landing that big mother of a ship each week," Roddenberry says. These days he has a problem of affluence: how to update and add the newest wrinkles in special effects without losing "the elements that really count...