Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their way to tacking together television's new season, the networks have at least cleared up one mystery. Raiders of the Lost Ark, fans will recall, ended inside a huge warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with wooden cartons marked "Top Secret." The networks have sneaked onto those premises, crowbarred off the lids and let the world see what was in the packing boxes: knockoffs...
...Representatives are lined with paintings depicting the proudest moments in the formation of this state's government, and in the role the state played in creating the federal government. Pilgrim fathers, colonial governors and leaders of the Revolution peer down from their stately poses onto the 160 polished wooden desks. The artworks serve mainly to commemorate the honorable men whose ideals and competence shaped a two-century legacy. But sometimes they provide a humbling contrast with the often politically less-principled actions of their modern-day successors...
...obscure intersection of two steam tunnels below Adams House D-Entry, to see a play. You go to have a Theatrical Experience. Once the directors have locked you into that cramped little room under the pipes, with its black drapes and grilled slits of windows and 25 rickety wooden seats at most, all bets are off. They might perform one of Samuel Beckett's plays. They might blow the place up. They might just turn out all the lights and make you sit in the dark for an hour. Then again, that might be the Beckett play...
...Siberia, USSR, Lake Baikal, one fifth of the world's fresh water. Bread and cheese, Woods, wooden houses; ruddy hardware men, kerchiefed, buxom women. Stand at window and remember India. Read prize-winning Chinese short stories, i.e., train ticket-seller turns over new leaf and saves future sister-in-law's life by having memorized connecting bus schedules. Francine shows off Nanjing University bug life preserved in naphthalene and film boxes...
...Torn nicely captures the brash vulgarly of Howard, but he is only really comfortable after the murder, when, a Howard's corpse, he no longer has to deal with the film's wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...