Word: woodenness
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...inundate much of Venice's scarce solid ground. At one point, the sea level was more than five feet higher than normal; water sloshed into every part of the city. The Piazza San Marco was submerged, as were all embankments. Venice barely had time to haul out the wooden planks it sets up to help pedestrians navigate flooding. Sometimes only yellow do not cross tape separated pavement from canal...
...walker I know is called Mudman, a persona of the artist Kim Jones. In order to become Mudman, Jones coats his body in mud, pulls a thick nylon stocking over his head, puts on a foam headdress, and then straps to his back a large lattice structure made of wooden slats, tree branches, wax, wire, tape, sponge, and whatnot. Sometimes he also wears a glove on his left hand from which a number of long wooden spikes protrude all the way to the ground. The effect is visually and conceptually compelling, especially if you see him walking toward...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell to its director, who has worked at the museum for 45 years, the last 30 as its head, with the exhibit The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions - a hodgepodge of 300 works of art, from a wooden Egyptian statue to Jasper John's White Flag, collected under de Montebello. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street, New York City...
...packages some of its peppermint foot products in the travel-sized Peppermint Cooling Foot Heaven gift set for just $20, which is a pretty good deal. It comes with a potent pumice scrub and a Cooling Foot Spray that will chill you out just enough. There's also a wooden foot file and two toe separators for pedicures on-the-go. But if I had to pick one of these products to bring on the road, it would be the Peppermint Cooling Foot Lotion. It's the perfect consistency for a satisfying rub-down, and while I didn...
...feel that it’s nice to have a refuge and feel like this is home, not just a temporary dwelling,” Shemtov says. Some of the room’s elements come from IKEA and the Coop. Shemtov brought other key pieces, including the wooden screens and leather chair, from his home in New York City. “It’s the most comfortable chair ever,” Shemtov says...