Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irving of Brooklyn turned from the king somewhat baffled and spoke to St. John. And so the challenge was accepted, and the knights went to separate sides of the great field. It was a vast plain with great wooden and stone stands. And all the maidens crowded the seats, while the knights donned their armor...
...opening scene, famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...
...Bill would look at me through his dark glasses and wink (or was it a twitch) and smile (or was it a leer), and say to whomever happened to be sitting on the wooden stool next to his, "What a smile. God, she looks mischievous! Look at those pretty lips." I thought of Red Riding Hood--the better to do what with? I got attention, kisses on the hand, compliments. One of the waitresses came...
John Paul traveled in the upstairs lounge, which was furnished with a sofa, a table with four chairs, and a bed made up with Irish linen. On one bulkhead hung a wooden crucifix of Celtic design, a reminder of Ireland's role as an ancient and proud daughter of the church. A man with a hearty appetite, John Paul was offered a sumptuous menu that included fresh fruit, bacon and sausages, black-and-white pudding, cheese and biscuits, and tea or coffee...
...Polaroid color snapshot of a scraggy Sindona as an apparent captive. It was delivered to the Rome office of Sindona's lawyer, Rodolfo Guzzi, in a plain envelope postmarked Sept. 8, Brooklyn, N.Y. It shows Sindona, gaunt and pale, hair unwashed and jowls unshaved, seated on a plain wooden chair. A cardboard sign covering his chest carries an ominous message crudely printed by his purported kidnapers: IL GIUSTO PROCESSO LO FAREMO NOI (The fair trial will be conducted...