Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behalf of the Sandinistas to die in Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents and two siblings had flown in from the U.S., honoring Linder's request to be buried in Nicaragua if he was killed. Shortly before his father David poured Oregon soil on the wooden casket, he said, "Benjamin felt he belonged here...
...Bader) and his sailors, who form the traditional chorus. Bader is a delight as she reveals the long-hidden pleasures of screaming in anguish, but the chorus are a mixed lot. The women sailors ("Oh, no!" cries my friend the purist) tend to chew the scenery; the men are wooden. All seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing in the original, but I wonder if they would have resembled Yannis Arzimanoglou's melodramatic piano music or Eleni Nikolopoulou...
...fuzzy on procedures and powers for local bureaucrats, who are finding ways to block the reform. In Moscow, for example, a commission has been appointed to judge the artistic and moral merit of handicrafts proposed for sale. A young Moscow mother of two who paints churches on wooden eggs was turned down because her wares were "of a religious nature." A jeweler's products were rejected because the work, although it sells briskly, was deemed "ugly...
...author sits at a rough wooden trestle table in his country house near Moscow, thumbing through a stack of page proofs for his novel. "This book is ^ about power," he says. "Stalin was consciously aware of the uses of power, the abuses of power, how to get power and how to keep power. He could have debated with Machiavelli because he would have considered that Machiavelli knew less about power than...
Murphy said that because the large basement area of the building was partitioned by wooden planks, the fire spread easily and was difficult to control, "giving it extensive headway...