Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schoolrooms across Austria, portraits of the President vanished from the walls. Civil servants in Vienna hung a 100-ft.-long banner from a government office building demanding that Waldheim step down. In the capital's St. Stephen's Square, some 3,500 demonstrators gathered around a 10-ft.-high wooden horse wearing a storm trooper's cap, which has become an anti-Waldheim symbol...
Worst of all, Julius' "voyage of discovery" is tortuously boring. Where Dorothy meets sympathetic souls on her way to Oz and shares adventures with them, Julius just keeps bumping into rock stars who stay on screen long enough to do quick, generally wooden cameos. Thus Julius meets Tom Waits, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother, for about five minutes, or long enough to get ripped off by him. Then Julius meets Dr. John, who plays Elmore's sleazy brother-in-law, for another five minutes and is again ripped off. Leon Redbone gets about six minutes as a silent Canadian...
...acting in the movie seems stiff and wooden, it is because the characters are being asked to play paradigms rather than people. Each character typifies a different ideology, so the movie becomes as heavily symbolic as a Brecht musical. The actors slog through the transition from hyper-realstic to symbolic looking rather bewildered...
Street signs and gates have been common targets of thieves this year, according to Harvard University Police records. A wooden "Harvard Neighbors" sign was stolen from the wall of 17 Quincy St. in September, according to police records. And signs and wooden control arms at the Apley Court parking lot have been stolen or vandalized at least three times this month...
...place of the heavy wooden gate, Levine and Spitzer have posted a hand-lettered sign reading, "Please bring our gate back. It protects the dog from getting hit by a car and will cost us hundreds of dollars to replace. Please, please, give it back...