Word: woodgrain
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...writer can be found in this immaculate room. Not a single crumpled wad of paper, not one disjointed scribbled phrase nor even a teetering pile of books. The white walls are blank, the metal bookshelves are empty, neither a scrap of paper nor a mote of dust disturbs the woodgrain desk...
...childhood was substance rather than fantasy: tactile memories of mold, mud, woodgrain and brick became some of the most "painterly" painting in the history of art. The foreground of The Leaping Horse is all matter, and the things in it-squidgy earth, tangled weeds and wild flowers, prickle of light on the dark skin of water sliding over a hidden ledge-are troweled and spattered on with ecstatic gusto...
...construction program to boost output of its Pintos, Comets and Mavericks. Chrysler is also expanding production facilities for its Valiant and Dart compacts. To fatten the relatively slender profits from smaller cars, manufacturers are loading the 1974 compacts with all kinds of optional items, such as luxurious vinyl and woodgrain interiors and air conditioners...
Buyers are adding many expensive options that can almost double the price of a $2,200 subcompact. The extras include "deluxe" gas caps, fake woodgrain treatments for station wagons, air conditioning and more powerful (and gas-thirsty) engines. For $300, Custom-glass, Inc., of Costa Mesa, Calif., will even convert a Ford Pinto into a "Mini Mark IV" Continental by revamping its rear end and giving it a nose bob. Why go to all that bother to doll up a compact with all the frills? Detroit's backseat psychologists have this explanation: the U.S. consumer figures that buying...
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