Word: woodenness
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...more masculine latticework of the Antwerp Mesh, while women might prefer the Bruges Lace's genteel paisley (the eyewear starts at $460, and optical lenses are also available). As with most fashion trends, slatted sunglasses are nothing new. Theo's line was inspired by the Inuit, who have worn wooden masks with a single slit to block the northern sunlight for hundreds of years. That's not a look likely to hit the department stores anytime soon, but Theo's designs may well prove a shady business winner. www.theo.be
...Northern California told some 95,000 people in Yuba City and Marysville to leave their homes as the Feather River overflowed its banks. A sinkhole in Seattle swallowed part of a gas station, while about 90 mud slides struck the area, burying roads, threatening homes and sweeping away the wooden supports of the 66-year-old Magnolia Bridge...
...League title during that time was Penn, and 10 that Harvard had zero losses a year ago.Taking another tack, trying to purely test attendance, I asked about the seating in Harvard Stadium. Twelve respondents selected concrete Ls, while two went for metal benches, and no one was sucker for wooden seats. All in all, pretty good.The most interesting question turned out to be: “the most important player on the 2005 Harvard football team is...” No slight meant to team captain Erik Grimm or defensive anchor Matt Thomas but the choices I offered were Ryan...
...pyramid, even though the Center for American Political Studies gets a fourth floor perch, while—for example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses. A rather awkward allusion to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre, this skylight is only further ridiculed by the nearby presence of another much more elegant asymmetrical glass pyramid also designed by Cobb. But this is precisely what Cobb’s entire paradoxical building...
...anything but gentle: journalists have a responsibility to stand up against governmental abuses, even if that seems to compromise their objectivity. But Strathairn deserves credit for saving the film from tendentiousness, delivering Murrow’s tirades with a calm, persuasive authority that’s unvaried but never wooden...