Word: twiggish
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...growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take 30 years to reach its intended dimensions. What seems so fetching in his work is not just its titles, which are antic (who could not be charmed by a pair of boughs, their twiggish arms laid over each other, called Cuddling Branches?), but its unpretentious dialogue with natural shape, which Nash treats not as raw material but as an equal partner in conspiracy. Chorus Line (Three Dandy Scuttlers), 1976, strikes a fine balance between whimsy-the flurried vaudevillian movement of the wooden legs-and presence...
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