Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pete Rosenbaum's set design for Trial By Jury consists of little more than a few wooden structures. The set for The Sorcerer is more elaborate and features some nice surprises. However, the audience expects some sort of set change during the second intermission. When the same set reappears for the second half of The Sorcerer, we are disappointed...
...disease contracted earlier and, rather unsuccessfully, the temptations of his female students. While he attends Mass with Vixi, one of the more importunate of his potential seducers, in the local church, a presumptive miracle occurs. Danny does not see it, but Vixi and other worshipers do: an 18-in. wooden statuette of St. Joseph apparently moves during the service. Initially, Danny tries to turn aside reports of this happening -- and his own status as an inattentive witness -- with a joke: "Signs like that appear only to heathens. Never to backsliders...
...time Tom Jenkins saw his son alive was after drinking several cups of coffee with him at the breakfast table three weeks before he left for Saudi Arabia. Two days before the funeral, Tom paid a solitary visit to the funeral home in nearby Sonora. He propped Thom's wooden-framed portrait in front of the gunmetal-gray steel casket, then stood quietly to one side, his eyes misting up. It was the first time he'd been alone with his son since Thom ) returned from the Persian Gulf. "Good memories flow," said Jenkins. "They just keep flowing...
Counterfeit armaments can easily fool pilots zipping overhead who may not have time to analyze infrared images of their targets, which reveal the wooden husks below for what they are. Except, that is, when the decoys include heaters to simulate the infrared signature of, say, a tank engine, and perhaps crude transmitters to produce radar signals. A deluxe imitation tank from M.V.M. runs about $23,000, a lot cheaper than the real thing, which can cost $1 million or more...
...these kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...