Word: woodenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three galleries on Congress Street reflect this attitude. Clustered on the upper floors of a warehouse, they are pointedly minimalist and unpretentious in decoration. Bare wooden floors, cavernous white rooms, a few spotlights, and a table or two exemplify this style. The resultant bright, light rooms are indicative of their fresh, breezy approach to art. "We are to cater to experimental art and to current issues rather that to work that is in any sense decorative," says Kate Nayduch, owner of Lopoukhine/Nayduch Gallery, adding, "One of the reasons we moved here was that we wanted to show large pictures. Space...
HANOVER, N.H.--The walls of Dartmouth's gym are green, the wooden benches are slated seats of dull gray. Perhaps the color scheme is no apt a metaphor as anything for their basketball season. The Green played big in the first half of last night's Ivy encounter against Harvard, but a combination of an inspired Crimson second-half play, and a self-imposed Dartmouth belittlement led Harvard...
Such images, and others like Elijah Pierce's elaborately carved wooden panel of the Crucifixion (about 40 figures, including blacksmiths forging nails for the cross and a moon raining blood on Golgotha), are not meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay...
Similarly, Terry Ray Robinson as Toby O'Nottobee has a strappling and graceful character that tends to embarrass many of the more wooden folks around him. He, too has a singing voice you can hear--particularly in the show's best number. "Rain of Terror" Robinson's dazzling song-and-dance accompanied by a nifty trumpet solo by William Saleeby, makes as all-the-more painful contrast with the clinkers that surround...
...about starting from scratch. Well, Jeronimo is scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...