Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elder, represented by two paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...
With a dozen first-class engineers, Ed Cole for four years designed and discarded scores of wooden mockups. He tried everything: front engine with front-wheel drive, front engine with rear-wheel drive, rear engine with front-wheel drive, but he always returned to rear engines with rear-wheel drive. By the spring of 1956, when Cole's team produced a prototype power plant and suspension, he disguised it with a German Porsche body shell. One of Cole's friends recalls the scene that day at the Chevy Engineering Center. "Ed jumped...
...rebuild the interior entirely, construction workers had to replace all of the old wooden beams and window sashes with steel ones. Hoisting the 54-foot steel supports for the new floors through the windows without knocking down the building's shell made it "the toughest job I've ever come across," Aspasquella observed...
Occasionally, as in the military exercise known as Bo Odori, in which sticks, sickles and wooden swords were flourished in ritualistic confusion, the dance had an authentic feel. But more often, Takarazuka's "musical bridge" seemed a one-way street that fell 20 years short of its goal. After watching an animal turn called Shan Shan Uma, in which two dancers represented the front and hindquarters of a horse, the New York Daily News's John Chapman commented: "I kept muttering to myself 'Shan Shan Uma on the Rillera.' This helped some...
Quincy House, nearly ready, but not quite, opened its doors to its first residents Friday morning. The first group among the 260 upperclassmen who will live in the eighth House, had to pick their way amid wooden planks, unfilled trenches and other signs of continuing construction, but found their living quarters entirely finished...