Word: clapboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibitions of his work opened at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and Buffalo, N.Y.'s Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Despite his popularity, the artist quit New York City in 1883 for a wave-washed promontory in Maine called Prouts Neck. There the lifelong bachelor worked in a cliffside clapboard studio. Despite his old saltitude, he ordered his natty wardrobe from Brooks Brothers and purchased $40 worth of fine Jamaican rum a month from Boston's fancy S. S. Pierce for his hourly tots. He maintained, despite his absence, membership in the rarefied Century Club. Preserved...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
...tiny winding streets are empty. The houses of Provincetown, for all their beauty and quaintness, don't quite match their renown. The ridiculous splotches of color on the old New England clapboard make them look garish rather than festive. Lewis' New York Store is closed. About the only scene of activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs...
...convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...
...administrators and hard-nosed board members, or between visionary boards and a skeptical public. Generally, the test of his adjudication comes when taxpayers vote on a bond issue; he does not get his full .5% commission unless the issue passes and plans are approved. Working nationwide out of a clapboard rural headquarters in tiny Purdy Station, N.Y., his firm of Engelhardt, Engelhardt and Leggett now proposes some $380 million in school construction a year, compared with $147 million ten years ago. It wins about 95% of the elections on which it is consulted...