Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint, said the American architect Louis Kahn, was the beginning of all ornament. Puryear's work accepts and celebrates this. In Thicket, 1990, his intersections run free variations on the notching, lapping and tenoning of practical carpentry in order to generate a curved form with straight balks of pine. The mysterious dark, shiny lump of Self, 1978, is one of those forms that would be banal in fiber glass or even bronze; but it is made of laminated and coopered wood, and its variations of sanding and cutting, the slight bumps and dimples of the black-painted skin, give...
...industry's persistence was the government's initially sluggish effort to get to the bottom of the mystery. For years, the Pentagon turned over the question of missing Americans to defense-intelligence agencies more accustomed to concealing secret information than to guiding bereaved relatives through a thicket of classified and often conflicting reports. This heavy-handed approach not only angered relatives of missing servicemen but also fueled the suspicion and frustration that the MIA industry exploits...
...pilgrim in the forest of alternative cures can wander a long, strange way. Once you've set foot there -- if only to see a state-licensed acupuncturist upon your doctor's recommendation -- you may find yourself lost in the wild thicket on the fringe. Alternative medicine is a subculture. Its disparate practitioners know one another, attend the same holistic seminars, frequent the same bookshops. The acupuncturist will suggest that you see a shiatsu person he knows on the other side of town. The shiatsu masseuse will encourage you to buy certain herbs. Before you know it, you've suspended disbelief...
...claims Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who clings like kudzu to every new conspiracy theory that sprouts in the thicket of conflicting tales. Since the others aren't talking, even his wild charges get a wide audience. He was among the first to leak the details of secret U.S. arms sales to Iran back in 1986. He is one of the sources behind the stories about a purported "October surprise" hostage deal in the 1980 campaign. And now he has told Senate investigators that between 1986 and 1988 the Reagan Administration was secretly supporting shipments of arms...
...first tasks will be to contain separatist violence and address a thicket of economic problems, including an $80 billion foreign debt and a 17% inflation rate. After that, Rao will need to restore cohesion to his party's fragmented ranks...