Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spaced at equal intervals on the floor. A row of what appears to be eight truncated shoeboxes, the work of James Seawright, each containing a variant of the figure eight in sometimes flashing lights, while every now and then a taped voice croaks out, "Eight." A flight of wooden stairs covered in gold-colored carpet, entitled Euclid by Joe Goode. A creation called Die by Architect-turned-Sculptor Tony Smith, which he admits he ordered by phone. And why not? It is only a six-by-six-by-six-foot cube in slab metal-a piece of art on which...
Making of a Fake. What are the commonest imitations? Grotz lists 18th century and early 19th century cast-iron toys, banks and trivets, wooden signs, student lamps, Sandwich glass, Hitchcock chairs and Franklin stoves (the copies cost as much as the originals). Another popular fake is the "ancestor" painting-an anonymous portrait that the dealer sells by observing that it looks so much like the customer. As for Early American cabinetwork, the author estimates that no less than 80% of what is passed off today as 18th century dry sinks-and chests of drawers is in fact mass-produced, late...
...ball with the New York Knickerbockers, gave that up after three seasons to become a coach - at Lafayette, Hofstra, and then Princeton. In 16 seasons, his teams have won 294 games v. 106 losses-a record topped only by Kentucky's Adolph Rupp and U.C.L.A.'s Johnny Wooden. Van Breda Kolff insists that Princeton is "just a smalltime outfit trying to get along"-thereby provoking exasperated snorts from opposing coaches who are forever losing top prospects...
...documents, memos and letters via standard telephones. Magnavox backlog-virtually all of it in military orders for walkie-talkies, radar units, aircraft and mobile ground communications equipment, satellite signal receivers, and submarine-detecting "Sonobuoys"-stands at $152 million. As if all that were not enough, Magnavox has entered the wooden-furniture business, and it is entering the organ field with an electronic instrument used by Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra...
Balogh's book does not make comfortable reading-his style is both windy and wooden, his ideas are immoderate. Yet it is an important book because Balogh, 61, is no Peiping Tom but one of the non-Communist world's top doctors to underdeveloped lands. He is, or has been, a consultant to India, Ghana, Algeria and half a dozen other governments and U.N. agencies. Moreover, he is a Cabinet adviser to his longtime friend and neighbor, Harold Wilson. He has engineered many of the tough tax programs and convoluted controls in Britain-where Budapest-born Balogh...