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Have to have a bigger table to handle the Iran investigation. Everything is bigger. Instead of a dozen Senators listening to the witnesses, there will be 26 members from both Senate and House special committees. And so carpenters are hammering together a two-tiered, angled estrade out of used plywood that will be felted and draped in burgundy for the opening of the great drama next Tuesday. The harried staff is jangled by several hundred phone calls every day now, mostly from the nation's media, wanting everything from seats at the show to film clips of the confrontations...
...company's newest items really caught my eye. For only $190, I could have a ceremonial groundbreaking shovel. It doesn't look special from the picture, but I could tell it was made from the highest quality plywood and aluminum. Or I could have a ladies' walnut gavel for only $22.50, with my choice of a $10 gavel stand or a 4-inch sounding block for $24. (Men's stand and gavel cost extra...
...pieces of bone were located elsewhere in the kitchen. In the dungeon-like basement, furnished only with a portable toilet and two mattresses, three half-naked women clung to life. Two of them were chained to sewer pipes; the third was imprisoned in a shallow open pit covered with plywood weighted down by bags of dirt. Said Chief Inspector James Gallagher of the Philadelphia police department: "It was ghastly...
...redeemed by intriguing, humble materials -- particle board, panes of sandblasted translucent glass -- that add up to a winning industrial posh. Stanley Saitowitz's design for the Quady Winery in California's San Joaquin Valley embraces a kindred sort of gritty elegance. Again, ordinary materials are enriched by thoughtful treatment: plywood walls are exposed within and covered in stucco outside, while the arc of the crimped metal roof gives the building an unpretentious barnlike grace...
More than a dozen Cornell professors nailed plywood and stretched plastic sheeting to build the two shanties, said a reporter for the Cornell Daily...