Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings, on exhibition in Manhattan last week, are unassuming oil sketches of things Bouché likes to look at: old farmhouses, city streets and hallways, suburban backyards, antique wooden toys scattered on a table, shop fronts, roadside stands, and now & then a pretty girl. Quiet scenes lovingly painted in quiet colors, they utterly lack the shock value most moderns strive for. Instead of shocking, Bouché seduces...
...answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
...Cambridge Traffic Commission at last is replacing the frail, chilly wooden traffic control tower in Harvard Square with a larger concrete-and-stainless-steel edifice. It will have copper trimmings; just about all it will lack is central heating...
...Wooden tallied when the Crimson defense failed to clear the puck from in front of its own cage. He streaked in, stole the disc and and boat Nate Corning from ten feet out. The losers pressed desperately for the remainder of the contest but could not beat Princeton's close-checking defense...
...voice that is both delicate and strong. Dennis King, as Mercutio, is spirited and fanciful, and always in the true spirit of the apart. For the most part the performances of the rest of the cast are above average, except for Preston Hanson, whose reading of Benvolio is wooden and meaningless...