Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skidding creaminess, he achieves a fluency of rhetoric that does much to animate the more standardized conventions of his work. His sculpture is another matter. Nothing, not even the passionate exhortations of the Greens, could make you feel sorrier for a tree than the sight of Baselitz's wooden totems, hacked and mauled with a chain...
...they squabbled and they squabbled Gund went back to the drawing board about 300 times in fact--and came up with a final play and ornately designed wooden 5 foot by 5 foot house with a pointy roof. The commission suggested changing the roofing material and the paint color. The plan was set in action, the University shelled out $25.000 In early July, the structure was unveiled amid fanfare. And they worked happily ever after...
...hour, a blood-red Mercedes screeches through the gate, careering into a reserved parking place. Out pops a 5-ft. 3-in., 99-lb. woman who, with her porcelain complexion, delicate features and glistening black hair, might pass for a Kabuki doll. As she scampers along on 2-in. wooden platform shoes, her mouth is al eady moving faster than her feet...
Working out of a small wooden yellow house at the southern end of Harvard Yard, Harvard Alumni Association keeps track of the 220,000 university alums through exhaustive mailing lists. If you make it six weeks at Harvard, your name goes into those files and you are guaranteed continuous mailings until you die--unless you specifically tell the University to stop or change your address and don't tell them...
...complex near Atlanta belies its importance. Its headquarters are located in a squat suburban brick building, graced in front by a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health. Some sections are housed in wooden barracks around a former Army hospital. The agency, then known as Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), was created in 1942 to find ways to protect U.S. soldiers against malaria. The organization has since taken part in the successful campaign against polio (by pioneering the use of the Salk vaccine), and lessened the threat of rabies (by showing it could be carried by bats...