Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jelep-la, nearly 15,000 feet above sea level, cold and sleeting. "A party of Tibetan muleteers was seated around an open fire. I was invited to join them and a wrinkled old hag was ordered to make tea. She poured a quart of dark, steaming tea into a wooden churn, added a quarter-pound of dirty, strong-smelling yak butter and a heavy dash of salt. After this was thoroughly churned, it was served in a wooden bowl. Oily globules were floating on top. Anywhere else it would have been a nauseating concoction, both in sight and smell...
...decided to test my friend. The conditions: he could introduce me to the most 'exquisite' dish of my career and if my palate agreed, I would pay the bill. We stopped at a restaurant where my friend whispered some hasty instructions to the waiter. Minutes later came wooden forks and an earthenware crock full of hundreds of steaming, crackling, silvery creatures. And I had my first taste of baby eels (angulas), shiny and tiny as pins. They are boiled in a brew of black sauce and garlic, then fried in sizzling olive oil with garlic and red peppers...
Things Are Nothing. Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago. "I like this neighborhood." he says. "I can think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about...
...explosion's chain reaction reached 25 of the plant's 57 sheds and shacks, and all eight of the big wooden buildings. Packets of firecrackers shot aloft and burst in the air. As Kent's 300 workers, three-quarters of them women, ran for their lives, many of them crashed into the encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times...
...Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton. "It is sad," the article concluded, "that in Catholic Venice, full of Christian beauty, works...