Word: roote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic Treaty Oak -- alleged site of a treaty signing by Native Americans and Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin -- has been receiving the kind of diligent attention usually given a gravely ill head of state. A team of eleven has meticulously removed the contaminated soil from around its huge root network, and last week billionaire H. Ross Perot flew in 18 technical specialists from around the nation to assist in a bedside diagnosis...
...Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which reached its height around 1890 under Mallarme's leadership and which, through its effect on Matisse and others, lay at the very root of 20th century art. For the symbolists, art was a matter of evocation, not description...
...with a spidery backrest of hickory spindles. But his genius is essentially Oriental, akin to that of Zen rock gardening and Oriental flower arranging. Nakashima selects the exact natural object needed to serve a particular purpose. For a recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together in places with 4-in.-wide butterfly-shaped splints of walnut, Nakashima's signature method of prompting the ancient...
...wait for. It's something you do." The novel has echoes of faddish self-help themes, but by interweaving the stories and dreams of three willful women, Morris offers a comforting truth about families. We build our memories inside the memories of others, and what they remember can take root in us as well...
...best news for the plants is that much of the park's soil seems to have been merely singed. The charred area in some places is only a fraction of an inch deep, leaving root systems intact. Compared with Mount St. Helens, where the 1980 eruption left the side of the mountain without soil, Yellowstone was fortunate...