Word: oak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS is deplorable," sniffed the Belgian Minister of Agriculture. "Call the police," demanded his German counterpart. "That cow is dribbling on the papers," shouted an aide. "Get it away from the desk!" The cow merely mooed and left a steaming souvenir on the elegant green carpet of the oak-paneled conference room in the European Community's Congress Palace in Brussels...
...kind of instant junkyard of the future. They range from the tense brutality of Barry Le Va's Cleaved Wall (24 meat cleavers, slashed into a 30-ft. expanse of board) to a lamentable anthology of sculptural cliches that looks as if Gucci had been playing with oak beams and steel joists, but is in fact the work of the respected painter Kenneth Noland...
...Russia, a huge chemical plant was built right beside a beloved tourist attraction: Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's gracious country estate. Unmonitored fumes are poisoning Tolstoy's forests of oak and pine, and powerless conservationists can only wince. With equal indifference, the Soviet pulp and paper industry has settled on the shores of Lake Baikal. No matter how fully the effluents are treated, they still defile the world's purest waters...
...letter. Carpenter Louis Merger, 59, said that Madame de Gaulle "asked for the same kind of casket I make for everybody else. When I asked if she didn't want something military, she said 'Non.' " Pointing to the extra-length (6 ft. 11 in.) oak coffin, lined with white quilt and trimmed with an aluminum cross, Merger added: "He was right. Who would need anything more?" Total cost: $72, or $9 more than usual, because of the size...
GENE GALT Oak Park, Mich...