Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tsongas sits on the long wooden porch of his Victorian house in Lowell. At ease in a red sports shirt and running shoes, he seems oddly disengaged from his enormous undertaking. His mind turns to the campaign. "Where are the rest of them?" he asks about rival Democratic candidates. "Here I am, a has- been, all alone." Public argument will help him become better known. What about the lack of political flair? Tsongas is asked. "I have obvious problems," he says. But Tsongas does not invest much concern in the dynamics of leadership. He believes politics is driven by ideas...
Lizbeth and her 21 classmates from the steel band -- the city's only such school-based musical ensemble -- are in Wallingford to give a concert during Choate's Multicultural Day. Choate first became interested in the group last year when admissions director Andrew Wooden, 36, was visiting Burger to interview three potential students. "As I was walking through the hall, I heard the steel drum and was mesmerized by it," Wooden recalls. "When I got back to Choate we arranged for them to come here. This is a pretty sedate group, and the Burger kids had the place rocking...
...protrudes south from the Mexican border. To the east is the barrier reef, which runs parallel to the coast, less than a mile offshore. To the west are mangroves and shallow flats, and then the low featureless Mosquito Coast. San Pedro, in between, is a pleasant town of ramshackle wooden buildings on stilts or cinder blocks, with a few new condos...
...five-time Wimbledon champ, beginning a comeback. There seems to be no physiological reason that Borg, a burnout case at 26, couldn't rank in the Top 10 again. Tennis is much faster now, mostly because of big, composite rackets, and so far Borg intends to use his old wooden relics. But doubters may recall that he re-made his game once before, when he added a big serve in 1978 after he had won Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren't unknown; John McEnroe, 32, who was one of the reasons Borg burned out, took a furlough...
Ernst's work was continuously open to chance. The arresting drawings of his 1925 Natural History were made by laying sheets of paper on the wooden floor of his hotel room in a French seaside town and going over them with the (paternal?) soft pencil; the resulting images, altered and edited, received the name frottages, or rubbings. The name of the town, by an exquisite coincidence, was Pornic...