Word: wood
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...dazzling technical feats which, far from being mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety as to amaze the world...
Nobody had ever pushed the spatial possibilities of wood carving so far, something Stoss did by defying the apparent limits of the block. He combined two sculptural modes: the relatively straightforward, subtly continuous modeling of the human face and figure and a wild abstract convolution and hollowing of draperies, a sense of the pure plane jutting and receding in space that surrounds his bodies with an ecstatic corona of motion. His linden- wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural...
...Before a race, I just pray we execute well," Crimson freshman heavyweight coxswain Chauncey Wood said. "If one little thing goes wrong, everything might go wrong. It's all so psychological...
...debate has been highly emotional, and the charged atmosphere did not change in the rarefied air of the wood-panelled Boston courtroom...
Time and again Ronis mixes the old and the new, the expected and the unexpected. For example, the duels, which in many productions are played with phony rapiers, are here done by arming each actor with a pair of hard-wood blocks. They clap these blocks together without hitting each other, creating a rhythmic swordfight that is near deafening in the acoustically alive theater...