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...structure is imposing and impressive. Constructed using nary a power or even hand tool, the bed has been lofted on a frame made entirely of wooden poles and rope. Three of the poles actually came all the way from Matchett’s home state of Wisconsin in the neighboring town of Norskedalen. “I needed some longer poles, and we had these sitting around at my house, so my dad brought them up,” he explains...
...title of NEST was settled upon. “It wasn’t until we got the title that the look of the project really came together,” says Bastian. And a nest is exactly what the project will look like. A series of nylon ropes will be suspended from a bolt in the roof of the Holyoke Center, and from these ropes, a bed or “nest” of woven screen and rope will be hung. This nest will contain large-scale models of objects found in homes, such as watches, keys...
...traffic. So, the majority of the objects are made from styrofoam, most of which has been found as post-consumer waste. The Adams House squash courts are now littered with sheets upon sheets and blocks of styrofoam as well as colorful pool noodles, not to mention a profusion of rope, screen and aerosol cans of paint and glue. “I call it slightly controlled anarchy,” Bastian says...
...qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch. The lunchtime crowd below went wild with relief...
...while he says this you can see the doubts digging tunnels under his composure. Because this, after all, is the same Jonathan Franzen who nine years ago was almost ready to call it quits as a fiction writer, figuring that not only was he at the end of his rope but so was the novel in general. When his first book, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in 1988, he was just 29. The intricate tale of a vengeful woman hired from Bombay to become police chief of St. Louis, Mo., it got good reviews and decent sales...