Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...mountain lodge, some 40 smiling people, their shiny, shaved heads reflecting the dancing flames of a roaring fire, oohed, ahed and applauded. A lawyer had just pledged to file ten divorces for the ten highest bidders at a fund-raising auction on New Year's Eve. At a wooden table a grizzled, gruff man who wears a cap emblazoned with the message I'M THE MEANEST S.O.B. IN THE VALLEY nodded his approval. Charles (Chuck) Dederich, 64, was adding another ritual to his famed commune Synanon: wife swapping...
...preparing those memorable meals, the new Lucullans are spending unbelievable sums for rare, elegant foodstuffs. The amount spent on specialty foods by the average family has increased over the past five years by 20%. New cooks are also spending vast amounts on the steel, plastic, wire and wooden twiddlybits with which to turn their foodstuffs into ambrosial dinners. Zabar's, a Manhattan shop that stocks everything from French dry morels ($5.95 per oz.) to a $1,000 espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such...
...traditional problem of dandyism is that it usually leaves so little room for work: it is the work. Not with Nevelson. She will be 78 next year, and there is no more prolific or respected sculptor in America. Her boxes and walls, filled with accumulated wooden fragments painted a uniform black, white or gold, are among the fixtures of the modern imagination. But at an age when many artists are content to repeat the clichés they invented, Nevelson keeps on extending herself. The proof of this-if it were needed-is the centerpiece of her current show...
This walkin, environmental sculpture took 13 years to complete. It is the most ambitious of all her wooden constructions. The title suggests a brief bow in the direction of another, and earlier, image of night and silence: Giacometti's The Palace at 4 a.m., 1932-33, one of the canonical sculptures of surrealism. But Giacometti's palace was the size of a doll's house. Nevelson's work-almost 12 ft. high, 20 ft. wide, and 15 ft. deep-is actually domestic (if not palatial) in size, a place one can move into. It is both...