Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Fokin came to the United States, he established the one-man Wooden Horse Puppet Theater, supporting his family on money collected from his Brattle Street audience and from private shows...
...expected the wooden Gore to outshine the kinetic Kemp, but he did it again last Tuesday, when both men spoke to a group of Jewish leaders in New York. Kemp's pandering was so obvious that Gore, who had a partisan refutation in his pocket, instead delivered a statesmanlike talk boldly confirming the Administration's frustration with the anti-Palestinian policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sat glumly only five feet away. The next crucial confrontation will come in the vice-presidential debate next month...
...Christian Coalition-controlled Republican Party reminds me of the early Puritans. All that's missing are the wooden stocks and the burning of the witches. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since 1928, when I voted for Herbert Hoover, but no longer. ROBERT R. HELMERICHS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
...course, it serves the interests of Bill Clinton for his aides to portray the Clinton-Gore relationship as a glowing success, as it serves Gore's inevitable run for the presidency in 2000. He will struggle as a campaigner: crowds may like but rarely swoon at his wooden crescendos of passion. But for now, he is securely parked at Clinton's side, where he puts his fingerprints on White House initiatives large and small. It was Gore who suggested the best bit of stagecraft in Clinton's virtuoso State of the Union speech: planting in the gallery Richard Dean...
...characters aren't so much bad or wooden--even that would grant some substance--as unbearable. The plot wanders around, entangles itself, and becomes that pile of spaghetti that you can't pick up no matter how hard you try. Even the editing borders on the incoherent at times (or does that mean it's good...