Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a signature event," Rod is saying as he serves up drinks at the Rock Creek Lodge, a joint that has billiard tables, slot machines and a 5-ft.-tall wooden bull. It is the kind of place where you might expect to see Harry Dean Stanton in an argument with Marjoe Gortner over an eight-ball combination, a knife fight breaks out, and no one remembers either the assailants or the victims as quiet and normal. "I don't care if it's maggot races," Lincoln says. "You have to have something...
...Wooden...
EXTRA Porsche wooden spoon...
Chen Yuancai stands at the beginning of the Chinese dream. At 71, Chen has lived all his life in Shuangliu, a small village north of the Yangtze between the two cities of Luzhou and Chongqing in Sichuan province. In his cottage are three roughly hewn wooden coffins. "That's for my elder brother, that's for my wife," he says matter-of-factly. "Mine is on the bottom." The three coffins cost him $625, all told, including the grave sites on the hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable...
...river grows narrower, hemmed in by mountain ridges that tower above the boats. This is the start of the famed Three Gorges, a long, picturesque stretch with such place names as the Bellows Gorge, Drinking Phoenix Spring, Witches Gorge and Misty Screen Peak. The rapids that wrecked many wooden junks in the past have been tamed over the years by dynamiting rocks, and are now destined to disappear under 600 ft. of water after the dam is built...