Word: stools
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...lonely Robespierre. Christopher Sahm's Prince of Wales and Adam Kline's Duke of York brought a tinge of Oscar Wilde to this Georgian stage. The three incompetent medical men who try to find the key to the king's madness in his stool or his pulse introduce a hint of farce. In the end, all these divergent threads are pulled together by a rigidly orchestrated stage movement. The play gave the impression of a choreographed piece, with the actors preserving an impressive consistency of movement and gestures, In this context, Fred Hood's vision of the king...
...Escape routes" are what Ogilvy & Mather CEO Jerry McGee calls the conference rooms and "war rooms" created for the ad agency's new Los Angeles offices. To allow private conversations, idealab! has installed three "phone booths," 4-ft. by 5-ft. rooms, each with a stool, a countertop, a phone mounted on the wall and a glass-paneled wood-frame door. The booths will also be a feature of the company's offices in New York City, Palo Alto, Calif., Boston and London, all scheduled to open in November...
...Sitting on a bar stool in the East Village, circa 1988. It's late; I've come in after my shift in the cab. The bartender has green hair and the place is packed, still wall-to-wall with punks and assorted scumbags at 3 in the morning. Through the fog of cigarette smoke, at deafening volume, "Don't Fear the Reaper" plays on the jukebox. I realize for the first time what the words...
...arrives at true expression of the individuals she examines, reaching an immediate confrontation with her subjects. One of her last images, "Hartley and Andrew" (1983), depicts her son and grandson. Both father and child are outlined in blue, as was Neel's habit at the time; seated on a stool, they stare not out, but into the viewer. Background is eliminated or, rather, Neel chooses the gessoed canvas for her background, as she does in many of these late works. This is the ultimate demonstration of self-confidence: Neel lets her sitters emerge from the raw canvas, sometimes leaving large...
...waiting room and saw a mother pushing a sweet little girl in a wheelchair. The girl wore a stocking cap, having lost her hair. An old man was called to the desk, accompanied by his son. A nurse explained to the son how to collect a stool sample. And then a stocky woman in white called my name and led me down the hall to an examining room and told me to strip to my shorts and don a small gown. She was friendly and matter of fact in the manner of small-town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking...