Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks. As it turned out, the man with the banner just missed being a story. He had painted...
...cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing, otherworldly and stridently physical all at the same time: a master piece of the special American...
Memphis clients prefer more luxurious locales. Trend-and jet-setters always crowd Memphis openings in Europe and the U.S.; Couturier Karl Lagerfeld has completely done his Riviera apartment with Memphis, including a silk-cushioned, wooden-roped conversation pit by Japanese Masanori Umeda, in the shape of a boxing ring. The style is catching on with professional decorators as well. In Houston, a beauty salon and a cocktail lounge are currently being furnished exclusively with Memphis. The largest single professional group who buy the disturbing style, reports Lorry Parks, a partner in Dallas and Houston's Grace Designs, are affluent...
...requires that the policy was perceived as folly in its own time, that a sensible alternative was available, and that the policy nonetheless was carried out by a group over more than one political lifetime. She makes one exception to that last criterion, the brief episode of the wooden horse at Troy...
...elegant sentences, spinning out images of the past that took the reader to the scene. In this new enterprise she sometimes seems too much in a hurry to pause for that valuable indulgence. Her dense, rapid-fire synopsis of the siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious warrior-Pope Julius II) stops dead for impenetrable paragraphs dealing with Renaissance politics. The sharply polemical tone in the Viet Nam section undermines the intended message...