Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...standing press members is not enough, a huge press truck carrying an expansive, coarse-looking wooden platform and frame cage is full to the brim with photographers and videographers, milling about on the platform like cattle being taken to the slaughter...
Betwen 1964 to 1975, the UCLA men's basketball team won 10 of a possible 12 NCAA Division I titles. For these 10 very good reasons, John Wooden's program has been deemed the greatest collegiate sports dynasty of all time...
Hollywood is missing out on a great thing: an ingratiating actor who makes hit movies and speaks better English than a few action heroes we could name. In the early '80s Chan gave U.S. films a try (in Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run capers and two other wooden showcases), then returned to Hong Kong. For Chan there's no place like home. "In Asia I'm kind of like E.T.," he says. "Everybody comes to see my films. There are billions of people in Asia, and they're my first audience. If I get an American audience, O.K., that...
Older Japanese homes are often perched a half-meter or so off the ground on wooden frames. ``It's as if the house is standing on stilts,'' says Scawthorn. ``In a quake it collapses, and the house comes down.'' Well-placed plywood braces, combined with steel-expansion bolts anchoring the house in a cement foundation, would keep the base intact...