Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking leg...
...Charles Eames pressed it into subtle topographies that had been beyond Aalto's means. But no one ever paid the material more respect than Aalto. He built up plywood layers one by one, twisted and glued them meticulously, experimented. He coaxed plywood first into a simple L-leg (1932) to make his wonderful three-legged stacking stool, then split the L into a right-angled Y for table legs (1946), then sliced and bundled his Ys together into fan legs (1954) that look fluid, practically erotic...
Each arm and leg is a continuous piece of birch, slender treads bent into a pair of supple, bulging rectangles-no angular severity for Aalto. The continuous seat and back, like a toboggan doing gymnastics, is a sheet of birch plywood bent 110° in the middle and rolled at each end. It is a perfect conceit of a chair, at once lean and voluptuous. It is also reasonably accommodating to human beings: the scrolls are functional flourishes, each a great wooden spring. In this, more than in any other piece, Aalto's devotion to wood is its saving...
Even with Thio back in the lineup, Hunley will be spelling him-as he did in last week's Brown game-until the leg's back at full strength. And both parties seem pleased with the arrangement...
...restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis (and not, as legend would have it, to a South Pacific shark), he considered himself "not handicapped, merely inconvenienced," and worked tirelessly for 40 years to spread that message to U.S. amputee veterans...