Word: stanchions
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...mistake: this is not your average academic art exhibit. A quick scan of the attendees reveals lots of big hair, tight jeans and hints of rocker-girl décolletage. The sound system throbs with the refrain "Lick it up, lick it up." And perched behind a velvet stanchion, in an unbuttoned silk shirt that reveals just the right amount of furry, well-carved chest, is the artist: Kiss guitarist and front man Paul Stanley. (See pictures of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's 2009 nominees...
...them different, most of them hovering between the abstract and the recognizable. From time to time over the years Puryear has even edged into producing recognizable objects. As early as 1981 he made Desire, a giant wagon wheel connected by a long wooden spoke to an upright basket-weave stanchion, a thing forever in orbit around a center it can't approach. But lately he has been introducing into his work more of what he calls "things with a previous life in the world": wheels, tree trunks and even wheelbarrows that are found objects and that come into...
...teacher and the holder of graduate degrees from Harvard, I’m glad that editors at The Crimson still have high regard for journalistic standards, but this isn’t a matter of staying credible to your readership. You yet proudly hold aloft your stanchion emblazoned: “Veritas...
...irony, says Chicago architect Nestor Popowych, president of a wireless-development group, is that there is a better way. After all, a tower is just a post for antennas, and any tall structure--a water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam...
...player, the better," explained Leland's chairman, Joshua Evans. "Lots of use is desirable. Our great jerseys have never been cleaned and are all sweaty and dirty." Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers shirt from 1949 was carried down the ballroom aisle hung on a gold stanchion, like some saint's relic, and spike marks and bloodstains could be seen on the right sleeve. Robinson's widow Rachel, who consigned the jersey, watched from the front row as it sold...