Word: hardwood
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...whole music-centered philosophy about American life and culture. Sitting in the sparsely furnished living room of his Manhattan brownstone, with three Louis Armstrong statuettes peering down from the mantelpiece, he confidently mingles allusions to Picasso and the Iliad with appreciations of Duke Ellington and childhood anecdotes. The hardwood floor is littered with the toys of his two sons, Wynton Jr., 2, and Simeon, six months; their mother Candace Stanley, 28, is doing postgraduate work at New York University. (Marsalis has put the four-story house on the market for $950,000 and is planning to move his family...
...hardwood stage, bare except for a bed and chair, is an ideal place for this intense love story to unfold. The emphasis of the work is on characterization--the focus falls on the two actors, who shine unencumbered by theatrical accoutrements...
...tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest System, will see the destruction firsthand. The 40-ft. leafy cathedral that vaulted over the roads is now open to the sun, and once lush reaches of forest are bare, broken and brown. In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared...
What Cambodia needs most is domestic stability and a place in the international economy. According to The New York Times, Phnom Penh markets are filled with rice and other food, but they have been unable to export such commodities as hardwood, rubber, rice and seafood...
...CREW. Based in Manhattan's up-and-coming Flatiron section and housed in a loft building with hardwood floors and exposed industrial pipes, J. Crew is far from folksy. The company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...