Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was not a weak voice or wooden actor in the company. Ashley Putnam, 25, is a talented, striking new star who debuted professionally with the V.O.A. back in 1976, two months before she shared first place in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera national auditions. Her lustrous soprano voice handles high notes with authority, and her acting is good enough for Broadway. She manages to crystallize certain moments: a softened look at James (Jake Gardner) even as they feud; a coquettish triumph as queen of her ball...
...father Moritz was a printer, bookbinder and boxmaker. The infant Saul had the run of his workshop, which was filled with embossed paper, stamps, colored cardboard, reproductions of "museum" madonnas (literally, chocolate-box art) and type blocks. These were his toys. "I had from the beginning the large wooden type used for posters; so if later I made, for instance, a drawing of a man holding up a question mark by the ball, it's not such a great invention?it was something known to me." And so letters presented themselves to Steinberg as things, and "I have always...
...poison's presence. Jones, however, did find that there was a potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets. While the amount of dieldrin was not great enough to kill short...
...right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta to spin him around the living room ("Fly me, Daddy!"); from the spring he persuaded his father to help him build a "real" plane in the backyard (the wings and fuselage were made of wooden planks and car batteries powered the propellers)?Travolta has dreamed of soaring, of escaping...
There have been few moments in my athletic career more satisfying than putting an orange golf ball into the mouth of a wooden Tyrannosaurus and seeing the little orange sphere roll out of the dinosaur's rear end into the cup for a hole...