Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another notably-assassinated character is Allison, Jason's attractive, ambitious wife. Had she not been burdened with Eilbert's wooden acting or lines like "I am not jealous of Phoebe--I am jealous of the ongoing love-affair the two of you have with the theatre," she might have provided the movie with a sorely-needed foil...
After independence, the population of Luanda more than doubled to 1 million as tribesmen flooded the capital in search of work. In the squalid shantytowns of wooden clapboard, sheet metal and clay adobe that ring the capital, barefoot children share the streets with squealing piglets, chickens and goats. Conditions in the bleak ten-story apartment houses in town are not much better: in front of one building, women and children draw runoff water from an enormous pothole in the street...
Driving down a deserted beach road at midnight on the island resort of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Senator Edward Kennedy lost control of his car. The black 1967 Oldsmobile 88 careened off a 10-ft.-wide wooden bridge leading to the dunes, and overturned in a salt pond. Somehow, Ted Kennedy escaped. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, a pretty, witty blonde who had worked as a secretary for Robert Kennedy, was not so fortunate. Trapped in the car, she drowned...
...incident was the fourth arson attack against Jews in West Hartford (pop. 61,000), an affluent suburb of Connecticut's capital, in less than six weeks. The first fire badly charred the wooden interior of the Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Four days later, a second blaze gutted Emanuel Synagogue, a few blocks from the site of the first arson. The next day, flames raced through the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, spiritual leader of Young Israel. He and his family were away; six guests staying there managed to escape unharmed...
...they squabbled and they squabbled. Gund went back to the drawing board--about 300 times in fact--and came up with a final plan: an ornately designed wooden 5-foot-by-5-foot house with a pointy roof. The commission suggested changing the rooting material and the paint color. The plan was set in action, the University shelled out $25.000. In early July, the structure was unveiled amid mild fanfare. And they worked happily ever after...