Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dovetail and the lamination, the sculptor H.C. Westermann. It also has some of Westermann's laconic humor. Sanctuary, 1982, is one such piece: a cubical box of thick wood mounted on two raw branches with the bark still on them, which turn out to be "legs," pedaling a wooden wheel -- a sort of absurd unicycle, designed for flight...
Take Cabot Science Library. In the bowels of the building is a netherworld of wooden desks known as "pre-med row," where the future physicians of America bury themselves in their schoolwork...
During his campaign stops, Bush always sits on a wooden stool in the middle of the room. During the course of the speech, the president spins around, addressing different parts of the room...
...headquarters is one long room, a former storefront with the green floor tiles peeling up and coming loose. There are eight battered wooden desks with telephones, stacks of brochures, a table piled with sodas and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a fax machine, a Canon copier and a coffee maker at work...
...instead of measuring myself against wooden dolls, I cope through rationalization. I've gotten good at it. I've perfected the old "well-I-could-do-it-if-I-wanted-to-but-I-have-bett er-things...