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Upon entering the club's Member's Lounge, one immediately notices the ancient decor. The wood paneling recalls "the olde days," and antique posters and yellowed photographs of past members grace the walls. A large sign hangs on the stairway landing, boasting the number of U.S. presidents who are former members, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy...
...fire began at 1:04 a.m. Tuesday after a light fixture overheated and ignited an attached strip of wood, according to Deputy Fire Chief Frank E. Murphy. The fire spread to the roof, collapsing it in the rear and destroying all of the store's contents. The blaze also damaged Savenor's Liquor Mart next door, he said...
...Oklahoma. Trees are made of wood...
...clearly one of us." Practically the only area of art he never worked in was sculpture; in the rest, he crossed boundaries with elegance and fluency, turning himself into the most inventive poster artist of his age in images that seem to bridge the epigrammatic world of the Japanese wood block and the declamatory, populist one of emerging mass media...
...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 it a peculiar organic eloquence...