Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Less than two years ago, there had been nothing in the whole countryside but a few primitive villages. Then geologists discovered the richest iron ore in the world. Now the blast furnaces tower, prickly with wooden scaffolding. In a wasteland these furnaces are rising, the highest man-built structures the workers have ever seen...
Clothes are a luxury. Nadezhda shares her only raincoat with Larisa. Alexander and Alexei, 16, have learned to go without anything new. The Vaktins have no telephone, so contact with friends is limited. The wooden cabinet and rickety set of armchairs in the living room, which also doubles as master bedroom, were bought 17 years ago. There will be no money to replace the furniture anytime soon. The family's only entertainment is an old Russian- manufactured TV on which Alexander watches the latest sports and Nadezhda her favorite soap opera...
...Tommy's was my library and second home," said Braverman, who went in two or three times a day. A friend calls her "the wooden Indian in the window of Tommy's," she said...
Small, white and fluffy, the young turkey and its 20 cohorts peeked out from their wooden crate at the local post office, only a day after having been hatched halfway across the country...
...decade ago. No wonder. Here's a spectacular that really is -- a lavish celebration of the spirit of Christmas simultaneously traditional and inventive. Teddy bears dance The Nutcracker, Scrooge learns compassion, ice skaters whirl around a mini Rockefeller Plaza rink, the Rockettes march The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and shepherds and sheep, Wise Men and camels celebrate the Nativity. Joy to the world...