Word: woodenness
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...gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a monster hunches over a guitar, ignoring the empty wine bottle nearby.The lead singer, a mannequin with a gray wig, sings at a rusty microphone. David L. Fountain, 54, calls this wooden statue his wife. Without her, Fountain would have been a bachelor all his life, he says.“She’s a bad woman. A bad woman.” He laughs. “I like her because I can slap her and she don’t fight back...
...pretentious chic often found in new locations in the former East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. It's elegant drinking in a rough part of town. Green Door 50 Winterfeldtstrasse, greendoor.de Ring the bell on the aforementioned door to get in, and sit at either the long wooden bar or in the dimly lit lounge. Green Door's aim is to weed out the beer guzzlers from the elegant drinkers...
...style home around the corner from Shelbyville's cemetery. At age 15, Shawn's father Steve, with a child on the way, dropped out of high school and then spent more than a decade battling drug abuse. He was born again six years ago, he says, patting the thick wooden cross around his neck. He has been clean since and has a high-paying job burying fiber-optic cables. But his turnaround came too late to be a model for his three older children, two of whom dropped out of school...
Perhaps Brown’s plain-as-potatoes prose and wooden narration makes the book too Mickey Mouse for us. Or maybe the hype is just too loud. What business does such a straightforward thriller have selling so well...
...market only a couple of seasons. (Emerilware is a notable exception.) By contrast, Sam Farber, 81, sees Batali's line becoming a stand-alone design company. Like the Good Grips line, which appeared in 1990, the Batali products--with their autumnal colors, arm-breaking size and flattened wooden handles (a simple innovation that lends comfort to big hands)--feel like something...