Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class high school cheerleader my cousin had married. I remembered his spacious Coral Gables house with its electronic gadgetry and heated swimming pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder in the corner led to the unfinished loft where Harriet and the man she now lives with, an East Coast social worker turned hog farmer, sleep. Their three...
...much compared with the digs next door, but Amy Carter calls her new tree house home. Situated in a secluded thicket on the south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by shinnying up a sturdy old Atlas cedar. Amy introduced her 20-month-old nephew Jason, son of Jack and Judy Carter, to her leafy perch last week, and even her dad, says the First Child, "climbed up here once." The architect of the project is the President, who remembers well his own childhood tree...
Prior detests this kind of "progress". In one of his paintings industrial wastes billow into the air amidst a peaceful pastoral setting. Another painting called "House on a Highway" shows a home whose yard is bordered by a chain link fence. A fragment remains of the old wooden fence that must have marked the boundary more picturesquely before the highway was built. A basketball lies forgotten by the fence--the yard is not a very nice place for children to play any more. Ironically, a billboard by a highway peaks out of another charming landscape exhorting us to "enjoy!" what...
...verge of beginning to soften and see the other side's point of view, and he conveys the tension between self-doubt and the need to stay tough for appearances with great finesse. Only Marthe Keller, as the bitter Palestinian woman who masterminds the plot, comes up wooden--she seems a little too cold and calculating for someone who's bearing two generations of suffering on her heart. The real star, though, is Frankenheimer, whose direction is tight and professional, and whose product is gripping...
...tragic victims of Tenerife, there were no ifs. For their surviving families, the ifs were only agony. The reality came home at week's end in brown wooden boxes, flown to Holland and Delaware's Dover Air Force Base in cargo jets. Now it was up to the professional investigators to deal with both the ifs and the realities of aviation's worst disaster...