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...loss of money if Laetitia could not work again. She was so angry she ordered Laetitia out of the house. When her daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone in a cramped, dark space without windows and only a flimsy door opening into the alley. Laetitia must earn the pennies to feed herself and her children by peddling beer, cigarettes and candy from a shopping cart in her room, when people are brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Sanding a doorframe, Hopkins seems at home in the Mount Auburn Street construction site, with its boarded-up windows and makeshift plywood door...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Brothers | 1/10/2001 | See Source »

...Greek pillar that occupies over 300 cubic feet of stage space. What's more impressive, the entire piece is tilted upon its axis at a five degree angle to the floor. As the geometrically inclined amongst you will recognize, creating a nonperpendicular cylinder necessitates cutting a sine wave into plywood. There are easier things to do with a table...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nuts & Bolts: Sine of the Times | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...city and the school department have funded several projects to increase breakout space in Cambridgeport--for instance, using plywood to create small conference rooms on the building's second floor...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bursting at the Seams | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...world's most famous architect, was once just the world's most famous strange architect. That was in the 1980s, when to some people his angular rethinking looked all elbows. That was also when his mixture of high concept with cheap materials--chain link fencing, corrugated metal, pressed plywood--was getting his work labeled "populist," which generally means brainy but cheap. In 1981, when he was named Architect of the Year by his peers in California, he figured he should use the opportunity to accept his prize with a talk titled "I'm Not Weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Frank Gehry Experience | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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