Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christine J. Lay '97 played "The Worshiper," a contemporary piece of Chinese music on a zither (gu zheng), a wooden harp-like instrument that is laid horizontally on a wooden stand...
...wrong place; and if he had to do it there, a few minutes after the President was the wrong time; and if he had to do it then and there, sitting by a flag with bad lighting and a worse script was the wrong format for such a wooden speaker...
Producers were slumped at a wooden table, eager to answer actors' questions, asking bystanders hopefully if they sang, then begging them to try out for musicals...
...Clinton for their party's nomination. Bradley, a deeply private man, feared that his German-born wife Ernestine would face unfair questions about her father's role in Hitler's Germany (he served in the air force but had no Nazi ties). Bradley also knew that he was a wooden speaker and, despite a lifetime of achievement, feared deep down "that this small-town boy could never win the biggest contest...
...paintings tend to be objects: thick wooden boards, never canvas, and heavily framed. The paint is constantly reworked--not fiddled with, but glazed and obliterated over the years by successive coats. Each is a palimpsest, one improvisation partly burying another but leaving hints of it behind. Pigment covers the frame as well as the board, wanting to overrun the confines of surface. Even when Hodgkin's paintings are on the wall, you think of picking them up, the small ones especially, and hefting them in your hand. Dense, resistant lumps of color, real things in the real world--a status...