Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOMEWHERE in the second act, when Peer Gynt is stranded in the desert and offers half his kingdom for a horse, the stagehands accommodate him with a painted wooden creature that might have had trouble fitting through the gates of Troy. As its hulk lumbers forward, all eyes turn to the horse, Peer pauses, afraid that the thing might suddenly topple over, and you begin to wonder who's in control--the props or the actors...
...elegant house in Saigon, workmen filled wooden crates with the wealthy businessman's handsome collection of ancient stone carvings, antique porcelain and paintings. The art treasures were going to Singapore, but the owner and his wife, unlike many of their moneyed peers, had not found a way to follow them. Neither his government nor his American friends nor his contacts in the Cholon underworld had been able to help...
...Wooden Spoons. Salsa is urban music, born on hot summer nights on city rooftops and streets where kids make music drumming on mailboxes and the sides of cars, or hitting an empty beer can with a wooden spoon. The glue that holds it all together is clave, a continuous 3/2 beat tapped out on a pair of hollow sticks. Musicians sprinkle percussive accents around the clave and layer complicated rhythms on top of it: bands like to get six or eight going simultaneously. But it is the continuous clave beat that starts feet moving, hands clapping, and prevents aural chaos...
With Barry Cronin on second after a double, Driscoll belted a Jim Walker pitch deep to left fielder Mark McHugh, who made a tremendous leaping catch of the ball as he crashed into the flimsy temporary fence (a four-foot high, wooden-slatted snow fence) that bounds the outfield. The Husky outfielder fell onto and collapsed the fence winding up on the other side...
Kunstler seemed to have a harder task defending Hill. Dali-mustachioed Prosecutor Aidala produced five witnesses who supposedly saw Hill striking Quinn with a wooden object. Kunstler replied that four of the five had been offered leniency if they testified against Hill. Not so, claimed Aidala. "The evidence," he said, "is that there were no promises made to the witnesses...