Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's reincarnations of Shakespeare's bit players are part Beckett, part Charlie Brown. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood prove themselves linguistic acrobats...
Pittsburgh's four-year-old Business & Job Development Corp., owned and run by Negroes, has won enough financial support from civic leaders to start an ambitious industrial park in the Home-wood-Brushton ghetto. Last month the nonprofit group broke ground for a $1,100,000 plant that Westinghouse Electric will lease. Westinghouse will install Negro managers, hire about 75 ghetto residents. The development corporation plans a second industrial park, two shopping centers and a ghetto bank...
...they the only cinematic debris. For no good reason, The Charge of the Light Brigade includes a disconnected, listless affair between an officer (David Hemmings) and his best friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Scenarist Charles Wood (How I Won the War) overloads the script with totally unsubtle pacifist propaganda. "It will be a sad day," intones Lord Raglan, Britain's supreme commander in Crimea, "when England has officers who know what they're doing . . . it smacks of murder...
...peace and reopened trade routes to the West, their court at Peking remained essentially barbaric. They were frank admirers of China's traditional culture and encouraged conservative sculptors to turn out temple and palace art, some of which has been preserved. The Cleveland show includes 15 bronze and wood statues, twelve silver vessels, jade and ivory carvings. Yet for all the emphasis on tradition the period was not stationary. Tremendous strides were made in developing porcelain. The earliest statues in this material date from the Yuan period; many bodhisattvas show the influence of Tantric Buddhism, the Mongol religion. Their...
...practically ensure him a gold medal. Two weeks ago, Jay Silvester, a Utah insurance salesman, broke his own world mark in the discus with a toss of 224 ft. 5 in., which is more than 10 ft. farther than anybody else has ever flung the 4-lb. 61-oz. wood and' metal saucer...