Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where once only sagebrush and tumbleweed dotted dull gray desert, a modern hotel ($94 a night), a 4,300-ft. airport runway, a two-story redwood shopping center and strings of small wooden houses now adorn the hills. A sophisticated sewage-treatment plant draws raves from visiting experts, and wildlife officials marvel at the increase in birds that breed in the long-barren acres...
...heroin would be delivered. The actual smuggling is done in innumerable ways. One example: a year ago, FBI agents examined a load of ceramic tiles being shipped from a company located near Milan to an address in Buffalo. When they looked inside the hollowed-out beams of the wooden pallets that held the tiles, they found 40 Ibs. of heroin. Replacing the heroin with a look-alike substance, the FBI allowed the shipment to proceed and followed it to its destination with arrest warrants for eight people. When they raided the address to which the heroin was sent, they found...
...artists, and Picasso most of all, were enthralled by the associative power of the fetish. The otherness of tribal art was infinitely compelling, and remains so today: practically no Western sculpture in the 20th century has the sheer iconic majesty of the wooden goddess from the Caroline Islands lent to MOMA from Auckland, New Zealand, or the creepy terribilita of the British Museum's figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist...
...school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...
...Installing wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left Cimino partially paralyzed on her right side...