Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While they wait, three-year-old Galo plays with his wooden top. Most young peruanos have tops; resembling a large radish in shape and size, the top is thrown like a yo-yo with a flick of the wrist and spins upright even in an unpaved road...
Bang, bang, went his long wooden club shots, as straight as arrows, to the Field, the Lake, and the Dun. Now he wanted two 4's to win, and who that saw it will forget that wholehearted long iron shot smashed right up to the Royal green, with the road on one side and the bunker creeping in on the other...
Whooshing Sphere. Racquetball was invented by a Connecticut tennis pro in the late '40s when he substituted a sawed-off tennis racquet for the wooden paddleball racquet and put strings in the handball-derived game. Played on a four-wall court 20 ft. wide, 40 ft. long and 20 ft. high, the 2½-in. ball must be returned to the front wall before it bounces twice. Floor, ceiling* and walls are fair play for the whooshing sphere; the ultimate shot-the handball-style "kill" -is a ball aimed at the right angle of front wall and floor...
This time around the characters are not even wooden-just beaverboard. With one exception. As Alma, Betsy Palmer gives a performance that is touching and precise as a girl with a bad case of the fantods, erotic in the generosity of proffered and unrequited love, and radiant in the intensity of the deepest human feelings...
...that, the treasures retain the grandeur of mystery too. A wooden head of Tutankhamun, shown as the sun-god emerging from a lotus plant in daily rebirth, stares outward with a gaze that is as candid, guileless-and impenetrably secretive-as a cat's. Nearly every one of the 55 artworks seems a confident invocation of the idea of permanence. "To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again," said the ancient Egyptians. This superb show eloquently illustrates that point...