Word: woodenness
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...talent he could call on. There was Michelangelo himself, growing old (he would die at 89 in 1564) but still active: there are no fewer than 12 works by him in this show. Eccentric as this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving - whittling, really - of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 30-cm-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Piet?. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven...
...fringe of India's political scene. By 1984, the BJP had only two seats in Parliament. All that changed in the late 1980s with the advent of Indian TV's first big hit show, Ramayana. The serialization of the legend of the god-king Rama set new lows for wooden acting and dismal special effects?and surprised everyone when it became a smash. Modi, by then a BJP press officer, wasn't the only one who noticed. Party leaders Vajpayee and his hard-line No. 2 Lal Krishna Advani (now Deputy Prime Minister) saw an opportunity...
...itinerary. Occasionally Iwasaki's storytelling cuts loose. She describes an overzealous customer who dared to grope her. Iwasaki wasn't the delicate blossom that she seemed: she chased the customer around the ochaya and, after catching up with him, whacked him over the head with a wooden block. "The man just happened to go bald soon after that," she deadpans. Iwasaki has set the record straight on the details of her life. But it's her ongoing feud with Golden that keeps ruffling kimonos in the literary world. An update: in 2001, Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract...
...topic of the day is the powers of prime numbers. Five minutes into the section, the corn comes out of the bag, served on an attractive wooden stick. It’s surprisingly easy to write and chomp on the ear of corn at the same time, and although one kid noticeably moves his chair away, FM doesn’t seem to have caused much of a stir. By 21000, all the rows of corn have been put away. After elegantly extracting a piece of silk from FM’s pearly whites, it was time for the next...
...raiser, "and he is the only one among the potential candidates who has run a full campaign and knows what you have to go through to do it." Gore, who spent the weekend before the election campaigning for unsuccessful Florida gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, seems determined to soften his wooden image. He has taped a Barbara Walters interview to promote his new book on families, Joined at the Heart, and will be host of Saturday Night Live in December. Gore has yet to declare himself a candidate, but few politicians would go through the ritual humiliation of an SNL appearance...