Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blue button-down shirt and crisp chinos, praises his mother's integrity while posing in front of a well-landscaped flower bed. Kate Whitman, 20, talks about the candidate's ability to "forget all the political stuff and be a mom" while ambling past a hunt-country-style wooden fence in tennis shorts and sweater. The ad is clearly intended to make a family-to-family connection between the Governor and her electorate. But its unintended effect is to remind viewers of the wide chasm that separates this upper-crust clan, which beds down at the 222-acre Pontefract Farm...
...smell of smoke lingered in the entryway yesterday and a large, sickle-shaped scar is visible on the wooden door...
...joke that Smith is the only man ever to hold Jordan to under 20 points a game. But his no-I-in-team system was built to sustain excellence at the expense of occasional brilliance. "Dean is the best teacher of basketball that I have observed," UCLA legend John Wooden once said. And that teacher provided Jordan, who helped Smith win his first NCAA title in '82, with the lessons he needed to become a player not even Naismith could have dreamed...
...told) raped his girlfriend, Gabby, after her act at a private strip-show. As he knows nothing about the city, Mick ducks into a bookstore to buy a map, but comically, he accomplishes little more than entertaining us with the plop-thud of his wooden dialogue: "'What's your name?' Mick asked. She hesitated before saying, 'Judy. Judy Tanaka.' 'Very exotic,' he said. 'Not really. In Japan, Tanaka is the equivalent of Smith. But we're not in Japan, so it's still exotic...
Grabbing a wooden framed picture from the mantle, Mayer indicates a helmeted figure in jersey number 24 (that was the biggest jersey they had) surrounded by smiling teammates in pleated hockey skirts...