Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pyramid, even though the Center for American Political Studies gets a fourth floor perch, while—for example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses. A rather awkward allusion to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre, this skylight is only further ridiculed by the nearby presence of another much more elegant asymmetrical glass pyramid also designed by Cobb. But this is precisely what Cobb’s entire paradoxical building...
...anything but gentle: journalists have a responsibility to stand up against governmental abuses, even if that seems to compromise their objectivity. But Strathairn deserves credit for saving the film from tendentiousness, delivering Murrow’s tirades with a calm, persuasive authority that’s unvaried but never wooden...
...backroom plotting of previous years prompted talk of a general revival in party fortunes. Many delegates surprised themselves by concluding they could support any of the candidates, even though they range from Europhile to Europhobe, from 38 to 65, from right-wing to right-of-center, from electrifying to wooden. Yet they agree that making a smart choice is crucial to turning the Tories from also-ran to credible alternative. Labour probably has at least another four years in office, and whatever its woes - much in evidence at its own painfully regimented party conference - the Tories' first task...
Jeff plays tour guide, walking us to a larger classroom, where students sit at long wooden tables laden with dozens of wooden boxes. “It’s a goal-oriented religion,” he says. If you have a goal, he tells us, Scientology will help you accomplish...
During that July visit to the Church of Scientology, Jeff offered to show Allen and me how auditing works. We entered a small, windowless room. There were L. Ron Hubbard quotes in garish script tacked up on the walls, and a cherry wooden desk with chairs on either side of it. I could have been at a professor’s office hours...