Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace in Cloud Valley. Born in the small farming hamlet of Akahama in 1420, young Oda Toyo entered a Zen Buddhist temple at twelve. According to popular legend, he was a wayward boy, overfond of drawing. Tied to a wooden pillar as corrective discipline, he at first wept copiously, says legend, stopping only when his tears made a pool on the floor which he used as ink, with his toes for brushes. Oda Toyo's talent was early recognized and fostered, including apprenticeship to the painter Shubun, the leading practitioner of Chinese-style paintings of his day. Not until...
...from across the river Thames: "Here come Marshal Bulganin and Khrushchev. They are here to destroy mankind and disrupt our Empire." The voice was that of a member of the League of Empire Loyalists which, earlier in the week, had presented Prime Minister Eden with a 10-ft.-long wooden spoon to illustrate an old-but non-Russian-saying: "He must have a long spoon who sups with the Devil...
Somewhere in the auditorium there was a wolf howl. Then down the aisles, feet thumping the wooden floor, bounded five men. They dashed past rows of seated spectators, crossed the ten feet between front row and stage and jumped the four-foot parapet. One swung on Cole and sent him reeling onto the piano bench, which split under...
...Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe. But in the case of Diirer's "Dresden" altarpiece. the damage has resulted in almost total loss; the painting, done on fine linen, was apparently water-stained and rotted (probably while in the Germans' wartime hideout), then clumsily glued onto a wooden panel (probably by the Russians...
Hall began to doubt the cloud theory when he watched squids discharging their ink. It does not form a cloud for a considerable time, but hangs together as a dark, viscous mass. To learn more, Hall experimented with a small captive squid in a light-colored wooden tub. When his hand approached it, the squid changed color rapidly, as squids do. Just before Hall grabbed for it, it turned dark-and Hall found himself squidless. He had grabbed a blob of ink-darkened water. The real squid, now light-colored, was safe at the far side...