Word: chimney
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...even have a huge stocking hanging by the fireplace in my mayor's office so Santa can come down the chimney if he wants," Vellucci said...
...hard to get down the chimney, I'll open the door," Russell added. But he also wished for "a stocking full of happiness to my fellow councilors...
Smoke not only gets in your eyes; it is wasted heat. At least since Benjamin Franklin observed the phenomenon, owners of woodburning stoves have been trying to prevent all that expensive warmth from going up the chimney. Now a small Vermont company offers a modern solution: a fireplace-stove that uses a catalytic converter, similar to those found in emission-controlled cars, to re-burn the smoke and gases. The Shelburne Catalytic converter is 2 in. high, 8 in. in diameter and perforated like a honeycomb. It is coated with palladium, causing a chemical reaction that ignites the wood gases...
...wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...like Anselm Kiefer? The Germans, understandably, have extolled all of it because the resurgence of expressionist figuration offers a way out of the cul-de-sac in which German painting and sculpture found themselves after 1945. Hitler had trashed the avantgarde, driving modernism into exile or up the chimney. For a quarter of a century after that, German artists wore the virtuous American uniform of abstract art, as proof of their denazification. Now they breathe easier among their inherited imagery. At the same time, although there have been many dealers' shows of recent German art in America, museums have...