Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
Republican Hour. Inside Convention Hall stands a 19-ft.-high, 500-lb. sculpture that epitomizes the party's high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...
Michael Mckean provided a wooden and unconvincing Troilus, at least on opening night, and his youthful monotone, obviously deliberate in many places, grew way out of proportion in scenes when some acting would have been appropriate. Lisa Kelley fared a little better as Cressida, probably because the script requires one hell of a character change whether the actress likes it or not, but she spent most of her time struggling with difficult verse and a very strange costume reminiscent of early Ku Klux Klan...
...Center will occupy a parking lot, the grounds of a wooden frame house and part of the new mall behind Memorial Hall. The section of the mall actually over the Kirkland Street Under-pass will remain, but the rest of the grass is likely...
...between was a fence, and little Lee turned a tidy profit on that happy coincidence-collecting golf balls that strayed over the fence, selling them back to club members. "I cleared maybe $10 a day." Combining pleasure with business, he took up the game himself- playing with a discarded, wooden-shafted No. 5 iron that he discovered one day and sawed down to size...