Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene, the secretary (Fanny Ardant) has just found a mysterious scrap of paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company...
...fool." The hungry herds can be irksome as well as pathetic. The animals knock down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by state prison inmates, are being erected. Even more is being done to feed the ravenous animals. Typically, winter kills 5% to 15% of the herds; this season more than half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last...
Last week Cleveland's National City ($6.6 billion) announced plans to merge with Columbus' BancOhio ($6 billion). Indus try Analyst James Wooden of Merrill Lynch estimates that by 1995 the U.S. will have only 25 to 35 national banking organizations. Citicorp, BankAmerica and the other leading financial-center banks remain relentless in their determination to knock down the remaining roadblocks to expansion across state lines. The financial giants sometimes lose a round or two, but they always fight back...
...removed." The police caught the culprit, a young German, who admitted responsibility. "He fired the gun at me because I was Turkish," said Nilguen. That incident occurred a year ago. More recently, Nilguen's mother Melahab, 39, was accosted in the street by a German youth waving a wooden club and shouting obscenities about foreigners. "He suddenly jumped out from behind a lamppost and threatened me with the stick," she recalls. "He was swearing and saying, 'Get out of Berlin, dirty foreigner. Go back to where you came from!' I was very frightened, but a German factory...
This past summer, I acknowledged my new home at Currier House by laying upon my doorpost for the first time in my life a small wooden case containing inscribed parchment--a mezuza. For religious Jews, this is a practice dictated by written law. For others, it is a symbolic act of identification. To everyone, the mezuza affords good luck and represents pride in one's heritage and a pledge to perpetuate a worthy tradition. Considered a religious article, an authentic mezuza carries with it the sacredness of a Bible; its destruction or mishandling is forbidden under Jewish law. Yet, some...