Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such figures as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and, by satellite from Tunis, Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif. The centerpiece was Tuesday night's three-hour-plus "town meeting." Four members of the Israeli Knesset and three Palestinian representatives faced off against one another, symbolically divided by a wooden wall. In the audience were 600 Israelis and 150 Palestinians, who hooted and applauded partisan comments and occasionally asked pointed questions...
...show, if necessary, would have continued in a room behind the stage without an audience. But the onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...
...silver-and- rosewood tea sets come to mind? How about a Superman Touch-Tone phone or a frontal photo of a naked Yul Brynner? Allow your imagination to wander across Eskimo bone masks, prehistoric pottery and World War II medals. Try these: 18- karat-gold nail scissors and wooden merry-go-round horses...
Mitchell's stock has risen over the past year. During the Iran-contra hearings, he appeared judicious and intellectually rigorous. Under the glare of television lights, his wooden speaking style vastly improved. A Senator since 1980, Mitchell, 54, has been around long enough to have developed respect for tradition but not so long that he is inured to Senate logjams. "Tradition," he says, "ought not to be a justification for unreasonable delay and unconscionable deadlock," a sentiment that resonates loudly with the bloc of eleven freshmen Senators pushing a "quality of life" package to reform arcane Senate rules. As chairman...
Nick Raposo is also hilarious as the mad businessman constantly leaving phone numbers with his answering service. Lucy Soutter's performance as Linda wavers on the wooden once in a while, but she has about her a pleasing nuttiness reminiscent of some of Woody's best leading ladies...