Word: woodenly
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...Hark now features a plasma screen for Law School announcements, student mailbox cubbies, an elevator, wooden floors, and up-to-date electrical, mechanical, audio-visual and air conditioning systems...
Judson Beaumont began his career as a sculptor, crafting minimal, geometric wooden pieces. Then he saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the Toon Town extremes inspired him to go in a new direction. "I was taking my art too seriously," he says. "I had to lighten up a little bit." So he ditched the minimalism and began making fantastical, skewed pieces of furniture--and inadvertently entered one of the fastest-growing markets in the industry: luxury furniture for children's rooms. Now he and his Straight Line Designs team create his Pee-wee's Playhouse--like pieces for prices ranging...
DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs elegantly interpreted Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Ark. Best known for the light tensile wooden Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions...
...deflate our faithful rafts. The river has let us pass, but at a price - not in weariness or bruises, but in a twisting of the heart. Later that afternoon some tourists arrive on sea planes to visit a nearby waterfall, staring at our dirty clothes draped along the wooden walkway. Two different groups of people go by before we realize that none of us has asked them what's happened while we've been away. We're still in the Irenabyss, listening for the currawongs...
...even documented with faux-scholarly footnotes. When spells are cast (and they frequently are--Clarke isn't one of those stingy fantasists who doles out, say, one spell every hundred pages), they come with consequences of both the intended and the unintended varieties. When Norrell brings to life the wooden figurehead of a captured French ship--he and Strange are enlisted in the fight against Napoleon--instead of divulging useful military secrets, the figurehead promptly cusses him out: "Having passed all her existence among sailors she knew a great many insults and bestowed them very readily on anyone who came...