Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next three years." And if he did call a snap election, Thaksin is assured of at least one vote. Back in At Samart, Grandma Ouan tells a reporter that the cow Thaksin promised still hasn't showed up. As if on cue, a motorcycle roars up to her modest wooden house. On the bike is a young veterinarian from the Ministry of Agriculture with papers for Ouan to sign so he can bring her the cow. She won't actually own the animal; the government is lending it to her for five years. But she can keep any calves. What...
...corner of the building, coming to a stop partially wedged in the wall and nestled in the adjacent shrubbery. According to the owner of the car, Richard Palmer of Framingham, Mass., “the [valet] said the car kept accelerating.” Other than a heap of wooden fence debris and a dislodged window screen, the damage was concentrated around the 10-foot tall gash where the car penetrated the building. “At first I heard the squeal of tires,” said Scherer, who was on the second floor of the library...
...influence--although he saw their work only in photographs--was New York City artists who played with the idea of consumer culture in the 1980s--think of Jeff Koons suspending those basketballs in fish tanks like miraculous relics, or Haim Steinbach, who simply placed consumer goods on nicely laminated wooden shelves, sleek altars for sacred merchandise. Five years after he finished school, Jungen had his first show. One year later, he made the first Prototype...
...Vancouver show, Jungen and some assistants also spent days producing a new work in one of the museum's galleries, an almost 6-m tepee made from the coverings and wooden slats of 11 black leather sofas, the denatured equivalent of cowhides. Home Depot meets home tepee. "We treated the sofas like cattle," he laughs. "We herded them in, then we gutted them, then we skinned them." He didn't brand them first. He didn't have to. You know right away this must be a Jungen...
...acoustics. Contrasted against Lavietes Pavilion, which features an extremely high ceiling and expansive space behind the backboards and on the sidelines, the Lee Amphitheater is an older and more traditional gym, with a claustrophobic, sound-amplifying atmosphere enhanced by the proximity and steep angle of the wooden bleachers, which easily transform into potent noisemakers. Standing throughout the whole game, the Yale students directed most of their animosity towards freshman guard Drew Housman. Housman received a harsh initiation to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, as Bulldogs fans chanted the guard’s name and mocked his shooting whenever he touched...