Word: woodenness
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...freestyle sparring unique to the shodokan variant of aikido. It costs $55 to join, plus a monthly fee. tel: (81-6) 6622 2046 KYOTO: Butokuden Budo Center and Butokuden Gymnasium When not echoing with the grunts and shouts of judo and kendo competitors, this grand 100-year-old wooden pavilion hosts classes in shodokan aikido. They are taught by the formidable Nariyama Shihan. Enrollment fee is $55, plus monthly dues. tel: (81-6) 6622 2046. HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima International Dojo Join housewives and school kids as they perfect their joint locks and breakfalls at evening classes held in a spacious high...
...ponders the mystery of the dust that accumulates overnight and imagines himself as a fat pig, penned up with nothing to do but eat. Once in prison, Hanawa shares a cell with four others and goes about the regimented routine of a factory prisoner who works on carving wooden tissue boxes. Recreated with a meticulousness rarely found in comix, the book includes floor plans, daily schedules and sartorial options. Food turns into a fascinating preoccupation throughout the book, with frequent asides on the exact menu of prison meals, as well as coveted snacks and sweets. Hanawa also introduces memorable characters...
Sykes is trying to create a new kind of sitcom because, after her middling Fox show, Wanda at Large, was canceled last year, she no longer believes a writers' room can create an entertaining show. Reality, she believes, has made people realize how wooden sitcoms feel. "Now, when you have a laugh track, you say, What were they laughing at? It wasn't that funny," she says. The Comedy Central show forgoes a laugh track. "The people at home will do it for us. If you open your window, you will hear everyone laugh. It will be like Network. They...
...They play with these huge wooden sticks that probably haven’t come out in 15 years,” Sweet said. “This one girl was playing, and the blade of her stick was completely broken—there was a hole. And she played a whole game with it, like that’s her stick. She couldn’t afford anything else...
There were some interesting results. Pictures of deceased relatives and friends filled each of the colorfully decorated tables, along with various religious icons, including images of the Blessed Mother of Christianity, Aztec prayer offerings and flowers, and a large wooden dreidel...