Word: teak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normally has a putting eye sharp enough to split teak in the forests of Borneo, three-putted the first hole and was unable to drop his putts the rest of the round...
Waiting for this moment, crowds began lining up every morning hours before the trial began. Security was so tight that spectators had to pass through a metal detector before entering the teak-paneled courtroom. All were hypnotized by the now familiar question: Could an attractive Hearst heiress really willingly have joined her kidnapers, the tiny violent sect known as the Symbionese Liberation Army? And-as the Government charges-did she willingly help rob a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco on April 15, 1974? Patty's defense, announced weeks ago by Attorney F. Lee Bailey (TIME cover...
...photographer a guided tour of his house. A Doberman pinscher snarled behind a door ("He could take your arm off," advised Tony Pro), but the rest of the house was peaceful. There was a big swimming pool out in back, a pool table in one room, and a handcarved teak bust that the host volunteered was worth $250,000. In the living room hung an original oil portrait of Provenzano's mother, which he said he had commissioned "to honor her." Noting that the photographer was sweating as he left, Tony Pro remarked with a laugh: "Hey, you think...
...from Mies, and the Houston museum is no letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high...
...gray-blue flannel suit leaned across his tidy teak desk, past the elegant brown calf briefcase with gold combination locks, and pressed one of the 30 buttons on his elaborate intercom. "What's on TV tonight?" he asked. "Only some weight lifting," a male secretary replied. "Oh, all right," the button-pusher said. "We haven't got time anyway...