Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Becky Stone and Jenny Cornuelle as Karen and Martha turn in disappointingly wooden performances, livened by occasional flashes of emotion which suggest these actresses have untapped potential. Stone generally sleepwalks through her part, but she does convey authority and kindness when talking with the children, especially the terrorized Rosalie (Alice Brown--in the best performance of all the children...
...most serious challenge to the hunt came from an environmental organization called Greenpeace, led by David McTaggart, 47. A veteran of the annual seal-hunting protests in his native Canada, McTaggart six years ago sailed a wooden ketch into the South Pacific in a futile attempt to halt a French atomic bomb test. This time he vowed to keep a cordon of conservationists between the Norwegians and their prey. Said McTaggart: "There is no way they can stop us, short of sending in the police...
...burrowing under it, they chose to build over it--by means of the Weeks Bridge. The pipes that warm the Business School and the Soldiers Field complex snuggle in the hollow space beneath the walkway surface but above the arches that support the bridge. The passageway here is a wooden catwalk that runs up and over these rippling arches, creating a space that is quite high between the humps, smaller on the top of the arches, but always high enough to walk through, with an occasional stoop...
Four days later, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) convenes for the first time this year around a huge, finely-crafted wooden table in University Hall's historic Faculty Room. Former presidents and deans stare steadfastly from their places on the wall...
...meantime they start a rock band and win a contest at the Roxy, get deported to Tijuana, avoid several attempted busts, drive a large green van entirely built out of marijuana across the border to Beverly Hills, and smoke a lot of dope. They dominate the movie, wooden as they are, by refusing to put any other characters in the film, using instead a loosely constructed set of stereotypes and caricatures to fill up the screen. There are the bad old cops trying to bust the dope smokers, but the police are incredible bumblers who wind up arresting a group...