Word: woodenly
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...last thing on Min Soe's mind was casting a vote. Cyclone Nargis had just razed his house and ravaged the rice paddies that were to provide half of his yearly income. Nearly all the other wooden shacks in his village of Too Chaung had also been annihilated by the storm. Then, on May 10, representatives from Burma's repressive military junta descended on the village. Were they coming to bring badly needed food, water and building materials to the people of Too Chaung? Hardly. Instead, the government men forced villagers to participate in a constitutional referendum that critics have...
Every summer, this settlement 46 miles (75 km) north of the Arctic Circle experiences the never-setting midnight sun. But any time of year Sisimiut holds plenty of small wonders. Scattered across rocky inlets, the town's wooden houses are painted in primary hues - a tradition that started as a practical measure to make the hospital and police station easy to identify. Up on the craggy hills, you can enjoy stunning views of the town and find ancient Inuit burial mounds overlooking the sea, marked by piles of rocks...
...finally have their own outlet for their Apple woes and whims. A new Apple Store, expected by some online bloggers to be the largest in the world, is set to open on Boylston Street, where local businesses expect it will have an impact on neighborhood commerce. A large green wooden cover, announcing the upcoming opening in colors reminiscent of local favorite Fenway Park, hides what will be a three-story glass facade. Harvard students expressed little interest in the alternative to the Cambridgeside Galleria location. “I haven’t had to go to an Apple store...
...other—into the vast network of scenes and characters that comprise his vision of 19th-century London. The show’s skeletal set, designed by Grace C. Laubacher ’09, changes from a courtroom to a city street with ease. Its many wooden posts also have the irritating habit, however, of obscuring faces at key moments. The show’s truly excellent chorus helps to keep Sondheim’s increasingly weighty narrative snowballing along, in spite of a few lengthy scene changes which throw off the show’s momentum. The chorus...
...How’d you like to host a three-trillion dollar Deal or No Deal?” Yes, he was talking about the budget, and he had some great material on waterboarding they cut for time. But Democrats who find their once-electric primary narrative gone lifeless, wooden and bland should hardly despair, even if it doesn’t get the Hollywood makeover it may need. John Sidney McCain is 71 years old, and there’s nothing you can do about that.James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson editorial executive, is a social...