Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front, and a fourth log, slightly smaller than the first, on the adjustable arms (see diagram). He then lowers the arms until the top log just touches the surface of the large one at the rear. This creates a cavity that opens into the room-a sort of wooden furnace that contains the fire and prevents much of its heat from immediately escaping up the chimney...
...taxidermic peace, beneath the stupor of paradiethylchloride, with 12 of his fellows in the bottom rack of a huge case of monotremes and marsupials on the fifth floor. It is an austerely bolted cabinet, anciently designed to preserve the skins mechanically if not chemically. The skins lie on great wooden beds that slide out with the surging and lachrymatory bouquet of mothballs. The rest of the monotreme family is represented by spiny echidnas, one rack above--also from Australia, of an ant-eating predilection. The larger delegation is of marsupials, creatures that spend a portion of their pre-natal existences...
...stay on in England after shooting Lolita there in 1961. He found it "helpful not to be constantly exposed to the fear and anxiety that prevail in the film world." He lives and does all pre-and post-production work in a rambling manor house defended by two wooden walls and furnished in early nondescript. He rarely ventures forth even to London, less than an hour away. He prefers that the world-in controllable quantities-be brought to him via telex, telephone, television. All the books and movies this omnivorous reader-viewer requires are delivered to the retreat he shares...
Phyllis (Susan Van Cott) has the most beautiful voice of any in the cast; though--as frequently happens in a G & S female part--it is sometimes difficult to understand her words. Iolanthe (Nancy Wilson) also has a lovely voice, though her acting is wooden and uncertain. The chiefs of the Fairy chorus (Patty Low, Patty Woo and Rozlyn Anderson) are all fine. One of the few flaws in the characterizations is Doug Morgan's portrayal of half-mortal Strephon. One always sympathizes with actors condemned to boring straight roles while others are allowed to bring down the house...
Barnaby, who is to squash what John Wooden was to college basketball, must have kept his words of wisdom to himself, or else Arnold just wasn't listening. If playing smooth, accurate squash is what it takes to get into Law school, then Kaplan can go buy his Black's Law Dictionary today. Arnold, on the other hand, better start looking at some good business schools...