Word: woodenness
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...after Hurricane Gustav battered this coastal region, along Highway 57 from Houma, cars dodged downed power lines, felled oak trees, and an occasional dead turtle. "You LOOT, we SHOOT," read one wooden sign that'd been attached to one home's front door. Du Lac, not far from Cocodrie where Gustav made landfall, is so sparse it doesn't feel like much of a town. It's a set of trailers and single-level homes, often built on stilts, some rising some 10, 20, even 30 feet into the air above marshes...
...pack. On the cover of the magazine's Aug. 11 issue, there is no photograph of the sparkling Bird's Nest stadium, no triumphant Chinese athlete fondling one of the country's 51 gold medals. Instead, there is an illustration of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The cover line: "Rule of Law Starts with Limitation of Power." Sounds boring? In China, it's almost revolutionary...
...version of Manny's original sin: "filling every pore of a work with darting Style and creative Vivacity." (Oh, the castrating sarcasm of the upper-case S and V.) He defined the first part of his dialectic as "Masterpiece art, reminiscent of the enameled tobacco humidors and wooden lawn ponies bought at white elephant auctions decades ago..." What he wanted was obsession within anonymity: termite art, operating under the floorboards of official culture, doing it in the dark, "where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence, so that the craftsman can be ornery, wasteful, stubbornly self-involved, doing...
...exacting, sometimes wooden delivery style that Romney suffered from in the primaries is well suited to the general election, which revolves around television soundbites, not town hall meetings and church basement gatherings. For Romney, though, the biggest barrier may be the well-documented personal animosity that existed between McCain and him during the primary. But Romney tried to minimize its import. "Despite the fact that we differed on issues, in every debate I pointed out my respect for him," Romney said, leaving out the fact that those compliments were often followed by sharp attacks on McCain. Romney said...
With the Chinese media gushing over the success of the Olympics, the latest issue of Southern Window - a highbrow news magazine with a circulation of 500,000 - caught my eye. The cover illustration features a couple of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The coverline: "Rule of Law Starts With Limitation of Power." Sounds boring? In China, it's almost revolutionary...