Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after the disaster, the man known as A.P. broke ranks with his fellow bankers, many of whom wanted area banks to remain shut to sort out the damage. Giannini quickly set up shop on the docks near San Francisco's North Beach. With a wooden plank straddling two barrels for a desk, he began to extend credit "on a face and a signature" to small businesses and individuals in need of money to rebuild their lives. His actions spurred the city's redevelopment...
...filled with trills and other complex forms of auditory decoration. The most engaging piece was an improvised "Paradetas" at the end of the first half of the concert. The piece was lively and quick, with a catchy, easily discernible melody and much "percussion," which was accomplished by hitting the wooden body of the harp...
...desensitization of humanity is reiterated when the boy covers himself with what seems like a shield decorated with a cross, but instead is a type of bullseye used as a target for the murdering of innocence (Rainbow Boy, 1997; Small Target, 1997). In The Star of Vilna, a ragged wooden fence has a hole cut in the shape of the boy, and through it one can see him standing. It is the boy's body--his two arms, two legs and head--which makes the five points of the Star of David. Bak shows that the representation of the Jewish...
...vampirism. In Vampires, James Woods' master slayer, Jack Crow, snarls "Forget everything you've seen in the movies. It's not like vampires go around seducing everyone with cheesy, Eurotrash accents. They don't turn into bats. Crosses don't work. You want to kill one, you take a wooden stake and drive it right through...his...heart...
...shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images, made on glass plates, then spent several months sealed in lead boxes, stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the crushed wooden hull of a slowly sinking ship...