Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First comes selected contents of the tomb's antechamber. "Wonderful things," Carter had gasped when his candle flickered upon the objects that the 18-year-old pharaoh might need in the afterlife: alabaster cups for his wine, bejeweled amulets to ward off evil spirits, even an ivory-inlaid wooden throne to make him feel at home. But greater treasures lay ahead, as Carter discovered when he delved further into the tomb. What he saw (and what the exhibit visitor will see) was "strange animals, statues and gold-everywhere the glint of gold...
Despite the art's remoteness in time, today's audience will find in it the first stirrings of familiar Western styles. There is nothing alien about the playfulness of unguent jars shaped like animals with lolling tongues, or the alert grace of a gilded wooden statue of the goddess Selket, or the art nouveau traceries of floral patterns on a lamp and vase. A wooden seat is decorated with a leopard-spot design that has the startling freedom and bounce of Matisse's late cutouts...
...convey to you something Dave Crosby said to me just after CSN&Y descended from the stage at Woodstock: "We may be a little flaky, a bit flip, and sometimes we may say non-serious things, but just listen to the words of 'Wooden Ships' if you really want to know where we're coming from...
With his somewhat wooden speaking style, Thompson campaigned intelligently and energetically seven days a week. The strapping (6 ft. 6 in., 200 Ibs.) Thompson also put on slacks and cowboy boots to appear more folksy. He pictured the genial but ineffectual Hewlett, who had been Illinois' secretary of state, as the embodiment of old-style politics. Thompson now has his work cut out for him: he has only a two-year term and faces a cantankerous legislature controlled by the Democrats. But his smashing win has catapulted him into national prominence as a possible Republican presidential contender...
...earnings for Ludwig. The first lumber income will not appear on Jari's books any earlier than late 1979, after a $275 million wood-pulp mill, now being constructed on two huge barges in Japan, has been floated up the Jari River and set down on 3,900 wooden piles. By that time, Ludwig's first quarter-million-acre forest will be fully planted, and sections of it will be ready for clearcutting and reforestation. A second forest of the same size has already been mapped...