Word: woode
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Momentary Tears. During three hours of direct examination by Prosecutor Martin and 1 i hours of cross-examination by Getty, Corazon remained unshaken and-except for a few momentary tears-unsentimental. She accounted in cool syllables for each of the wood blocks, labeled with her former roommates' names, that Martin removed from a scale model of the five-room apartment where the girls were killed. As Martin lifted the block labeled Merlita Gargullo (another Filipina who had moved into the apartment two months before the killings), she offered the recollection that the murderer had asked Merlita: "Do you know...
Wrinkles & Chins. The bone-dry climate of North Africa, however, has preserved almost perfectly the portraits painted at Faiyum, especially those done on wood panels in encaustic (a mixture of beeswax and pigment, usually applied with a cauterium, or hot spatula). Today, these paintings tell historians most of what is known about portrait technique 1,100 years before the Renaissance. Modeling and shading were expertly done. Except that the anonymous workmen of Faiyum customarily enlarged eyes (large pupils being considered at the time a sign of beauty), classical realism was faithful in portraying hair styles, jewelry, wrinkles and occasionally double...
...acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told him bluntly: "You're out of your mind...
City planners see Reston as an oddity, an inappropriate regression to rural Americana. A planned community cannot be a model for megalopolis when it deliberately keeps its population density at 13 persons per acre. Wood and trees, they claim, are irrelevant media for the city of the future. And the attempt to preserve large tracts of hillside is unrealistic when the eastern seaboard of this country will be entirely covered with building in the next half century. "The philosophy of Reston is focused too much on the picturesque and the pedestrian," says one planner, "and it ignores the dynamic, rich...
...Nathan's Famous of Oceanside. Situated on the broad Long Island plane, accessible by car from all directions, Nathan's of Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full of metal picnic tables. The air is rotting vegetable incense, the food, all of it, has the consistency of a day-old french...