Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acting, too, begins a precipitous descent. On each successive appearance, Matthew Bakal, as King Ferdinand, becomes increasingly wooden. Jennifer Breheny interprets Queen Isabella as a Marie Antoinette-Queen of Hearts hybrid, gleefully discussing mass executions in the off-with-her-head mode. Kitt Hirasaki portrays the severe Master of the Order of Santiago like a spoilt schoolboy, ready to stamp his feet with frustration...
...plus TV footage of a terrified helicopter pilot, Michael Durant, being questioned by Somali captors. Late in the week the Somalis allowed a Red Cross worker and two journalists to visit Durant as he lay, naked except for a piece of cloth stretched across his hips, on a wooden bed in a darkened room. Though he did not say so himself, his story -- ground out with difficulty; he said, "The right side of my face, my lip, even my teeth seem paralyzed" -- made it obvious Aidid's people are keeping him alive for propaganda purposes...
...most difficult adjustments for any player coming from collegiate to minor league baseball is the transition from aluminum to wooden bats...
...addition to returning the bones, the PeabodyMuseum also returned a wooden image of the Zuniwar god Ahayu:da to a New Mexican tribe in April1993, according to an article in The Boston GlobeMay...
...perpetuate the elaborate wooden trim and complicated roof structure of Lowell's time, with towers and many dormer windows, was economically impossible," says Architectural History. "Buildings thus came to be constructed of prefabricated elements, of poured and prestressed concrete...