Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...m.p.h. prairie winds had sent the flames gulping through the compound. The fire raced through the big parlor, feeding on the wooden benches and the stacks of Bibles kept by the door. The chapel crackled as flames consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from the messiah's rock-'n'-roll band and the wooden pew-like bleachers for his audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned...
...unparalleled array of artifacts, including not only stone tools and animal bones but also chunks of mastodon meat, wild potatoes, and seaweed and other plants that must have been imported from the Pacific coast, some 40 miles away. The archaeologists discovered fire pits surrounded by burned wood chips, wooden lances with hardened tips, wooden basins containing seeds, grindstones -- and a human footprint. The foundation of a wishbone-shaped structure held the remains of more than 20 types of medicinal plants, some of which bore marks that may be the imprints of human molars. Most intriguing of all, the scientists unearthed...
College athletic budgets are certainly big enough for a few extra bats. What's more, the price of the new aluminum bats rolling out of the factories these days leaves one thinking that wooden bats might even be cheaper...
...might not be any better if Lamour spoke. He is more wooden than the Cross. He seems to have been cast because his expressionless features have the same effect Garbo's masklike face did at the end of Queen Christina; audiences saw complex emotions playing across her features while she was thinking, she said, of "nothing at all." This show is unlikely to lure back the lapsed, let alone convert the condemned. The faithful can impose their own meaning on Lamour's blank canvas...
...anything said slowly enough is high drama. Not content with one intermission during the two-and-a-half-hour extravaganza, he threw in a second, just to flesh things out. Perhaps he wanted to give suicidal viewers an opportunity to make a bid for freedom. The acting was usually wooden, and the transparent attempts to throw in the odd whimsical flourish served only to emphasize how staid and slow the production was. No amount of thought-provoking direction and visionary acting can compensate for the basic dramatic necessity of maintaining brisk and lively delivery...