Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kids need somewhere to horse around, and when the Ferrantes built a new wing on their farmhouse, they included a wooden-floored, two-story-high playroom, known...
...really. It seems that Victor has been sitting in the same wooden, straight back chair in Stillman library every day for the past three years, seven hours a day. Occasionally he fools some of his friends by leaving for three minutes to get a drink of water at the "bubbler," or a Doctor Pepper in the automated vending "Machine City," which crazy Victor calls one of the hottest pick up spots on campus. But usually Victor is more than easily accessible, and always ready to speak on the virtues of Yale. "I've talked to a lot of people." Victor...
...while, the actors seem to feel this mismatching, as the first few scenes tend towards the wooden. But by the time the audience cross-legged down the JCR's length, with only a narrow aisle for the actors) has craned its collective neck as the scene flashes from one end of the long room to the other, the game is beginning to pick up, the dance takes on its own rhythm. And when Sands turns on the lights and announces, "The sceneshifts and so will we," and 60-odd people trail after him through the tunnels to the grill...
...High School Athletic Coaches Association Player of the Year--and it looks like the Bruins will be back in the final four. Based on talent alone, they should win the national title. But the game of musical coaches that has been going on at Pauley Pavillion ever since John Wooden retired is not the kind of thing that can bring home top honors...
...near dawn and La Nativité, a rickety 30-ft. wooden sailboat crammed with 63 Haitian refugees, was bobbing to ward the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h. lashed the sea, and waves as high as 5 ft. swept over the homemade vessel. Less than 60 yds. from land, La Nativité was suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging...