Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comedy bits are interpolated, too; role-playing shows up most strongly in the uproariously funny newspaper scene, in which the cast member who's evidently been selected to play the "doofus" role during the show pantomimes sitting down on a wooden packing crate, surrounded by the other members of the company, to read his newspaper--and finds himself hopelessly distracted by the symphony of newspaper-rustling, throat-clearing and coughing that gradually builds up around...
According to Verde, anyone who arrives at the restaurant between 7 and 11 p.m. can sample brandy and wine, receive a 50 percent discount on cigars and cigar accessories and a discount on humidors--a wooden box which stores cigars--from Hispano Fine Cigars of Boston...
Similarly, the scene in which the ghost of the murdered Bhangane appears at Mabatha's coronation feast remains extraordinarily powerful in translation: wearing a huge, white wooden mask and long twists of rope representing his "gory locks," he is a terrifying apparition as he stomps ominously across the stage, pointing at the murderous King and intoning "Mabatha! Mabatha! Mabatha!" This is one of the joys of watching Umabatha: it succeeds in creating an alchemical marriage between the old story and the new setting...
Even after the doors were locked, the Tasty was still the object of curiosity. Throughout the day, passersby stood on wooden boxes to peer over the white signs into the Tasty's empty shell...
...always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...