Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...called Gore "improbably charismatic" and an "environmental prophet," which couldn't be further from the truth. A wooden, pseudo-scientific charlatan would be more accurate. This is not your finest hour. Rick D. Smith, BUHLER, KANSAS...
...look much different if administrators had adopted the designs of the firm they initially hired to make a plan for a campus bar. That company first proposed a three-dimensional grid for the walls and then, in a second attempt, a design featuring smooth benches molded out of the wooden walls. But throughout the process, students who were consulted were said to call for a more traditional pub, and the College eventually hired a new firm to design the space...
...rave reviews but also ran into criticism that its angular gallery spaces, with their diagonal walls - spaces not so different from his new ones at the ROM - were inhospitable to the art or even the public. To meet U.S. safety codes, the museum had to apply 7.5-cm-tall wooden markers ("courtesy curbs") on the floor in some galleries to prevent visitors from advancing into inward-sloping walls and bumping their heads. Christoph Heinrich, who will become the Denver museum's new curator of modern art in September, has already announced that for one of his first shows he plans...
...called Gore "improbably charismatic" and an "environmental prophet," which couldn't be further from the truth. A wooden, pseudo-scientific charlatan would be more accurate. This is not your finest hour...
...warm day in April, and the private dining room at Gramercy Tavern, one of New York City's top restaurants, is set for a tasting. Kevin Garry, Gramercy's assistant beverage director, has lined up five glasses and five bottles on the long wooden table. First, Garry pours a 2002 Schneider Aventinus from Germany. It's caramel colored, with hints of nutmeg and banana bread. Next up is a spicy Hitachino from Japan, followed by a 1998 Rogue Old Crustacean from Oregon, with sherry and port qualities. "This is the new torch holder," he says as he fills a fourth...