Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Head of the Charles. Once, the name evoked images of pristine waters, Harvard insignia and the intense expressions of rowers as they maneuvered wooden oars through glistening waves...
Holworthy and Pennypacker now boast new fire alarms and new heating, lighting and sprinkler systems. Holworthy also got new wooden floors and additional showers...
...otherwise drab show. The former category merits a close look because of the amazing technical skill with which they were painted. Most notable is "The Slate" of 1890-94 by John Haberle, in which the entire canvas is painted to look like a chalky slate, complete with a wooden frame, and, as the label points out, uses scientific precision and detail to create a canvas that appears messy and smudged...
...that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...
...Qidan produced exquisite ceramics, which were commissioned from skilled artisans in conquered Chinese states. They also developed elaborate funerary trappings, including yurt-shape urns, gold burial masks, painted wooden coffins and tomb guardians, that seem to indicate a melding of the region's major religions: Taoism, Buddhism and shamanism...