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Beech, maple, ash, elm. oak...
...must have been considered a superb technician, capable of representing anything. Foreground details exist down to the last bramble on a bush, while in the distance a minuscule brush stroke may distinctly show a man walking or working underneath a tree. Bruegel began with ships' timbers of seasoned oak. He set the planks edge to edge, smoothed them, and then brushed on a white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color, though, often bore no overt relation...
...TELL you the story of Waller Creek. Waller Creek winds along the entire length of the University of Texas campus, furnishing the only break in the mass of buildings. Below my dormitory was a beautiful patch of huge cypress trees, oak trees, and a tangle of smaller trees. I'd been around, under, or in those trees ever since the summer after my junior year in high school...
...couple of weeks later I saw some people I know carrying "Save the Trees" signs, They'd been trying to save five oak trees in front of the football stadium across the street. But the trees had already been bulldozed- which was to be expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed...
Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...