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Word: woodenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese Packaging," should not be missed. Organized and chosen by the Tokyo designer Hideyuki Oka, it consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara prefecture for more than a thousand years. But everything in the show is to this day a standard form of packaging among a number-diminishing, alas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Throwaway Bamboo | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

Byron also survives his Missolonghi fever in a wicked imagining by Harold Nicholson, who in his essay has the poet fumble on till 1854-as nothing less than King George I of Greece, "an obese little man descending the steps of the Crystal Palace on his wooden leg, supporting himself on his famous umbrella, and clasping a huge red handkerchief in the other hand." The wooden leg has replaced the clubfoot of Byron's dashing early years, which the poet-King lost, along with all vestiges of poetic vision, while fighting ineptly against the Turks near Lepanto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byron's Wooden Leg | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

Fast-Break Offense. Many of those teams are in Wooden's own conference. With an impressive 75-20 record against nonleague opponents, and with four teams ranked among the nation's top 20, the Pac8 has become one of the toughest leagues in the nation. The strength starts up north at Oregon State, whose team, expected to fight for the cellar, was instead tied for first place with U.C.L.A., going into last weekend's showdown with the Bruins. The Beavers are led by 6-ft. 8-in. Sophomore Forward Lonnie Shelton, who is racking up 18 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courtquake in the West | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Kelley, a low-key psychology major, is averaging 20 points per game, leads the conference in rebounding, and also paces Stanford in assists. Says John Wooden: "Kelley is every bit as valuable and as important to Stanford as Walton was to U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courtquake in the West | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes in the history of sport-$5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strange Boardfellows | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

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