Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-respecting restaurant designer would have a field day with the salt shakers here, and Salts does not disappoint. The salt is offered in a wide, black matte clay bowl, offset by a simple wooden spoon. The restaurant's name is a reference to the ancient practice of offering salt as a sign of hospitality. Apropriately enough, the waitstaff is remarkably hospitable and prompt, and capably serving the spot's unusually delicious food...
Despite the varied resources, there is no signof Black History Month within the wooden walls ofthe library...
Tucked away on the fourth floor of 20 DeWolfe, a suite decorated in a Far Eastern motif brings cosmopolitan flavor to the relatively new apartment complex. Antique wooden furnishings add a lot to the room, as ornately carved chests line one side. A mauve and gold colored brocade ottoman sits on the oriental rug. The cane and glass coffee table offers a ceramic bowl simply placed in the center. In one corner of the room hangs an authentic, carved ceremonial mask from Mali used in coming of age ceremonies. A red and gold Chinese kite decorates another corner...
...Because instead of waiting three years for the other bimbo to drop, they get Al Gore in the White House. He gets a honeymoon. The wooden quality that inspired you to describe him as a 'manlike object' while he was second banana strikes a lot of people as a relief after five years of the Big Smoothy. In the year 2000, Republicans are cutting one another up in the primaries; the party is hopelessly entangled in the public mind with these right-wing squirrels who set up people to snoop on the President's backseat activities. Gore sails into...
...illustrate the scale and impact of such a building, I submit my drawing (see below) of a possible structure showing that it would not only overwhelm the two wooden Greek Revival mansions and the Swedenborgian Church, but would cast them in complete shadow most...