Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penney, which made its name as a mass marketer, discovered the benefits of targeting when it set up 20 experimental boutiques stocked with caftans made from kente cloth, brimless hats called kufis, carved wooden masks and other items imported from West Africa. After selling out all the merchandise in just three months, the retailer expanded the concept to 100 more stores and will add American-made products with Afrocentric designs. In the entertainment world, art is imitating life: four of the five new comedies debuting on NBC this fall will star black actors...
...thousands of civilian bomb shelters built as part of the massive Soviet civil defense program. At a shelter 40 ft. below the main building of Moscow State University, water has flooded some of the rooms, and thieves have stripped the three-tiered bunks of more than half the wooden plank beds, leaving only useless steel frames...
Other times, though, he is darkly sober as hetouches the wooden mouse on his desk and recallswitnessing the cervical dislocation method...
...where they played basketball together in the members' gym, and quickly moved up to the Senate. Each is handsome, in his way, and boasts an attractive young family with a wife more conservative than he. Both ran bumbling campaigns in 1988 and were criticized as weak and wooden public speakers...
These days, Tennessee Senator Al Gore -- the bottom half of Bill Clinton's Democratic baby-boomer ticket -- freely retells this joke about his wooden campaign style in his ill-fated 1988 presidential race. The self-deprecating humor is a reflection of Gore's hard-won sense of ease, the tempering of the fires of ambition, the self-awareness that comes with staring tragedy in the face and surviving...