Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pensive McQueen proving that he could really act and a young and fanatical Richard Crenna proving why he could have been a contender but wound up second banana to Stallone in the Rambo canon. (And, disappointingly, Candice Bergen as the love interest, to whose acting the cheap-shot term "wooden" truly does apply.) A bit of a plodder, but plenty of powerful stuff. The short happy life of Po-hang, a year before Cool Hand Luke, will tear your heart...
...ship had made several trips to Aspinwall and back, but as Kinder relates, its steam engines leaked water, which sloshed without restraint, because the 300-ft. wooden hull was built without bulkheads. Coal, which was both fuel and ballast, was loaded at New York for the round trip, so with more than half its coal exhausted, the ship rode too high in the water on the return. Storm winds canted the hull sharply. Pumps failed. Water swamped the starboard fires...
...through 8,000 ft. of complex cable. Thompson's driving intellect pushed the technology, and his flatfooted, no-blarney confidence persuaded a consortium of Columbus businessmen to put up very large chunks of money. By the summer of 1987, the submersible was diving in deep water, to a large wooden wreck spotted by the expedition's sonar. Men and machinery worked beautifully, but what they proved was that the wreck was not the Central America...
...called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos. For the state capital of Chandigarh...
...that changed this season. Forst worked on his strength and conditioning all summer and improved his swing by practicing with a wooden bat, and it paid off in a record way. By the end of the year, Forst was in the five spot in the order, led the team in batting (.406) and RBI (39), held the Harvard record for hits in a season (67) and was playing on a 36-12 team that had won two games in the NCAA Regional...