Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodation needs. Among his demands: "King-size bed in master bedroom (one mattress only, not two). [Room] must be utterly blacked out so as not a sliver of light can enter ... Suite must be immaculate ... Accommodations cannot be within one floor of conventioneers ... A gross of extra wooden hangers in YB's bedroom ... All phones must be Touch-Tone with 13-ft. cords ... Wine: The only one he drinks is Chateau Gruaud Larose '66. If hotel does not have it in its wine cellar, order in advance ... Stock YB's kitchen in advance of his arrival with...
...grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern...
...been doing other things that characterize him better, if only because he left them. That morning he had been in Northrop Frye's course on the typology of the Bible--hence the Bible under his right arm--and the day before he had been at work on a wooden creation he calls a sculpture--hence...
...liberal Fisher left off being a student in 1944 when he was drafted, and he says there was no question as to whether he would serve. He went to war, even if all that meant was scraping paint and filing charts as assistant to the navigator on a wooden Navy sub-chaser that chugged slowly across the Pacific and into Hawaii at the end of the war. He has served his country since, and more actively, as assistant general counsel to the Far East mission of AID and deputy director of AID's Colombian mission. In both areas, he channeled...
...tall and athletic-looking man with springy joints, Fisher is also a connoisseur of junk-heaps, and for the past few weeks has been salvaging wooden beams from his neighbor's yard. He is building a sculpture in his kitchen. He calls it "lobster pot" and it is destined for a spot in the OCS-OCL, library, Lobster Pot is a nexus of three pier-like beams jutting up from the floor and plastered with wooden slats that look like misbegotten orange crates. Lobster Pot is ugly, but Fisher's visitor doesn't know...