Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small crowd of about 40 eventually gathered in the Treasury Room adjacent to the main library. With its heavy wooden paneling, subdued colors, and muted lighting, the room seemed like a perfect place in which to honor 'Justice Holmes. Dark grays and navy blues, those colors so basic to lawyers' wardrobes, predominated throughout the room. The low murmur lapsed into silence as Freund rose to deliver the main address...
...flew it only once, for about 60 seconds back in 1947. After that, the giant Spruce Goose flying boat, designed by Industrialist Howard Hughes, never again took to the air. The eight-engine wooden plane, built by the Hughes Tool Co. and a Government defense agency, was obsolescent even before its one brief hop. Last week the General Services Administration announced that the bird, which has been stored in Long Beach, Calif., will be carved up and its pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and other institutions...
...make everything else equality ridiculous. That way, the show doesn't need to depend on drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons ("to stir the people to rebellion"), the chorus-line becomes one more irrelevant frill, part of an endless series whose insouciance about ordinary standards of sense as well as sensibility lets you just sit back and listen to the one-liners crackle...
...wooden house at 3 Sacramento Street reflects the quiet sedateness of a Cambridge neighborhood, where big front porches and cracked sidewalks create a sleepy, comfortable environment far removed from the bustle of the Square and the institutional ivy of Harvard. But once you cross the worn porch to knock on the wooden double doors, you leave the restrained neighborhood surroundings behind and enter a lively, self-contained community of forty Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. While not quite off-campus, students at the Dudley co-op are as far away from Harvard dorm life as it is possible to be while...
...much, the audience began giggling at this point and didn't stop. The couple's writhing and gasping is intercut with shots of another man with a craggy face sitting behind them, who keeps raising his eyebrows. After a minute he too heaves out of his seat and wooden faced, strides manfully down the aisle picks up Emmanuelle and carries her into the bathroom to more incredulous laughter from the audience. What follows is a direct steal from the first scene of Last Tango, its perhaps reverent plagiarism ruined as an erotic image by the fact that Emmanuelle is sitting...