Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...
...extent that he is a friend of anything, is a friend of the family. Each week Small supplies Blaise with newly elaborated symptoms. Magnus has supposed himself, for instance, to be a large egg and, during another crisis, has imagined that he is stalked by a wooden-legged bishop...
...against the French hope, France, to become the official challenger for the Cup. By this week Bond should know which American vessel Southern Cross will face off Newport in the final races that begin Sept. 10: the new aluminum Courageous, backed by an East Coast syndicate, or Intrepid, the wooden, two-time Cup winner from California...
...beach that used to be guarded by foot patrols and a Coast Guard cutter has been returned to the public. Last week a stream of strollers made the one-mile trek along the sand from San Clemente State Beach to stare at-and try to peer over-the wooden fence behind the railroad tracks and the 25-ft. bluff behind it. All that the curious could see was the gazebo that was refurbished at public expense and a corner of the main building. Richard Nixon stayed out of sight, as secluded in the Casa Pacifica at San Clemente...
...item of the day: the legendary Butcher album. When the "Yesterday and Today" album first came out, it pictured The Beatles dressed as butchers and surrounded by wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers on the unreleased albums; mint-condition models of the original butchers are like two-dollar bills. Fans scurry up, hands reach out to touch the record, Instamatics and Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers...