Word: knob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trees or buildings. This can often mean ugly and obtrusive towers of 60 ft. or more that can interfere with television reception. The larger devices can also cause bothersome noise. General Electric was forced to shut down and modify its gigantic 2-MW generator atop Howard's Knob Mountain, N.C., because residents complained of the incessant hum caused by the slow rotation of the windmill's 100-ft. blades...
...hand, one can be sure what the sculptor Martin Puryear is about with a subtly irregular circle of dark bent wood, some four feet in diameter, a minimal serpent with a knob for a head: this hand some and assured object is like a blowup of a tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make...