Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coogan's Bluff--One of Donald Siegel's ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "Madigan") finest films, its pleasantly mechanical script completely transcended by the honesty and directness of Siegel's style and a moral concern for the fate of his characters. Clint East-wood is fabulous, and the Siegel stock company (Susan Clark, Don Stroud) again proves a group of Hollywood's most capable new actors. Marred only by an unfortunately pedestrian last 60 seconds. At the ORPHEUM, Washington...
Last week some two to three thousand U.S. Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bonhomme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa...
...construction worker said he didn't think either the supervisor or any of the workers minded. "I think it's wonderful," he said, "and they're really protecting the fence by adding a few more layers of paint to the wood...
There's a visually witty wood snake in one piece. Mirko made it because "sometimes you play." After a while one might analyze the wit of the snake's proportions, but at first the whimsy is simply experienced...
...within tradition Mirko is very alive and open to new ways and ideas. When he came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten...