Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wood was out and aluminum was in. That was the new gospel circulating in the rarefied world of 12-meter yachting after the last America's Cup races in 1970. No matter that aluminum-hull boats had never competed in yachting's most prestigious international competition. Designers were convinced that the lightweight metal vessels would be speedier and cheaper to build. Olin Stephens, the world's foremost yacht designer, who conceived three of the last five Cup winners, created Courageous...
Major Surgery. By last week the aluminum revolution was looking a good deal less robust. With the second round| of trial races under way in the waters off Newport, R.I.-the Cup had been postponed a year to give designers time to work with their new technology -wood looked as good as ever...
...losses were against Courageous. Intrepid's ebullient supporters have responded by plastering their cars and yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
Western ideas of form and psychological theories of "body language" are inadequate to deal with African imagery, though it has something to do with both. A European is apt to seek the meaning of a work like the modern Ashanti wood carving of a mother and child from Ghana in its harmony of shapes: the massive, fluid bulges of hair, the delicate formal rhyme between the points of nose, chin and conical breasts, and so forth. But when Thompson showed it to an African, his response to what seemed "universal" in the sculpture was quite different. "She is purely there...
...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...