Word: woodenness
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...kill at will is all the more troubling when heard in a pastoral idyll. It is difficult to imagine the age-old, sun-drenched rice terraces as the execution grounds where the rebels say they machete their enemies?civil servants, anybody with a job?and shatter their legs over wooden blocks. Sometimes beauty can even seem obscene. No journalist I know ever takes a day off in Afghanistan?partly because there's a terrible guilt, an abhorrence, about enjoying the scenery in such a desert of destruction...
...worries that han and other cornerstones of the modern Korean ethos are slipping away as the nation speeds into the Internet age and replaces wooden temples with concrete office blocks. Mindful of old traditions, he uses ancient Chinese characters in his movie titles instead of the more modern Korean phonetic alphabet. "My goal for making movies is to teach the world about Korea," says Im, sitting in his spartan office surrounded by local film awards and stacked cardboard boxes. "But I also want to teach my own countrymen about their own history...
Radcliffe had two locations: the Yard on Garden Street with Agassiz on one end, Mallinckrodt on the other end, Fay House on the right side, the Radcliffe library on the left side. There was an ancient cherry tree in the Yard with a wooden seat around the base of it that was Radcliffe’s logo and a favorite photo-op, a sort of substitute for John Harvard’s statue in Harvard Yard...
That, of course, is part of the magic and the grip of his work: its unrelenting vitality. His figures, men or women, may be mad or bad. They may be full of life, or they may just have been spitted on a French saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...
...months ago, officials at Buckingham Palace feared that the celebrations of her Golden Jubilee would be lifeless and sour. The climb back from Princess Diana's death in 1997, when Elizabeth's wooden initial response provoked public fury, has been arduous. Her offspring have continued to provide embarrassing fodder for the tabloids, from Edward and Sophie trying to trade their lineage for gain to Prince Harry's dabbling in drugs...