Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, he was an artist of immense sophistication, the friend of Duchamp, Erik Satie, James Joyce and Ezra Pound. His work, with its flowing contours and obsessively refined surfaces, was one of the main sources for Art Deco style. Imagine the top of the Chrysler Building carved from oak, and you have something very like his sculptural bases. As Rowell points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth...
...Gilda Radner's famous Saturday Night Live parodies and to Walters' most famous, frequently mocked question. Actually, it was a follow-up question she asked Katharine Hepburn in 1981, after the actress said she felt like a tree: "What kind of a tree are you?" (Hepburn said an oak...
...continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized oak...
...week's end the long dig-out had begun. Crews arrived from all over the South to clear the highways of fallen pine and live oak trees, restore power, water and telephone service and remove the wreckage and debris. It will take many months before the outer beaches can be restored to anything close to normal. Many of the dunes may never come back...
...Italianate Victorian house has an entry hall; a grand living room with fireplace, interior shutters, bay windows, wide pine floors; a dining room with original plaster moldings and formal French doors opening to the deck and gardens; and a modern chef's kitchen with oak floors and an arched ceiling...