Word: wood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lane, still has fond memories of life in the barrio. During a visit to his old neighborhood, he pauses before a vacant lot bordered by a garbage dumper and two dilapidated cars. "Coming back really tore me up," he says. He would like to turn his great grandparents' old wood-frame house into a museum "not out of ego, but to show kids that starting from here, they can go anywhere they want." Yet it took him a while to find his own path. When Olmos was eight, his parents were divorced. It was a painful time, and Eddie took...
...materials were cheap and available," explains Santa Fe Architect Michael Bodelson, 33. "It was a vernacular architecture, low technology." These days, he notes in amusement, only the rich can afford to build adobe homes, since authentic construction can add about 15% to 20% to the cost of a comparable wood-frame or brick home...
Tucker was perhaps the most gifted of the English sculptors nurtured by % Anthony Caro's teaching at St. Martin's School in London 30 years ago. They were all struggling to get out from the monolithic influence of Henry Moore by constructing open sculpture from wood or steel, instead of carving or modeling. By the late '70s Tucker was bringing an unusual intensity and even drama to his constructed work. He made pieces like the magisterial House of the Hanged Man, 1981, out of weathered, blackened balks of timber and bits of roof trusses and piers held together with massive...
...Wood, who was elected to the Board of Overseers on a pro-divestment platform, opened the panel by discussing the history of Harvard's involvement in South Africa...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 was originally scheduled to represent the University's voice in response to Rondeau, Ehrenreich and Wood. However, at the last minute, Jewett told Paul he could not come because of the Class Day ceremonies, so Bossert attended in his place, Paul said...