Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House to study law books and constitutional interpretations most of the day. He painstakingly revised his opinion several times, and not until noon of the day the opinion was to be delivered did he finally finish. Three hours later, his secretary handed out mimeographed copies to reporters in his wood-paneled chambers. Wearing a dark coat and gray slacks, Sirica stood by, shaking hands, extending polite greetings, but resolutely refusing to comment...
...recalcitrant and faulty instruments. "Twice in two weeks I've had the keys come right off the piano," says Byron Janis. "In Flagstaff, Arizona, I was in the middle of Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew off as I was finishing a Chopin sonata - they glued it back with hot epoxy during the break." Both instruments were brand new, one a Steinway...
Certainly, much of Wyeth's success flows from nostalgia. Many people would like to project themselves at first hand, exchanging-for half an hour -their self-cleaning ovens for the black, bulbous wood stove that squats in the Ericksons' kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the lean prospect glimpsed from the Olsons' attic window. Small wonder, then, that Wyeth's critics have dismissed "the other Andy" (as one of them, thinking of Warhol, called him) as a fabulist, and his images as a sentimental mix of frontierland and Cold Comfort Farm. The objection...
...done between 1968 and 1972, are among the solidest and least theatrical of Wyeth's work. They are also-to the extent that it is possible with naked flesh-puritanical pictures, chill in their contrasts of skin pallor and gloom, of skin against the resistant textures of grit, wood and opaque brown foliage. There is an edge of contrivance: Black Water, 1972, is much posed, and the profile of the body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor of hills and undulant landscape. But in the best of these pictures, like The Sauna...
...nostalgic recollections of Europe and his variable and impressive career. Edo who is as close a facsimile of the renaissance man as one can find anywhere west of Vienna, who on isolated, occasions has likened his team to a forest, a leaden silver dollar, and a stick of rotten wood ("a nice appearance outside, but no caloric value when you out it in the fire"), who demands style and elegance above win-lost records, who interrupts crucial matches for summit conference on the strip and winds up after two or three or five minutes of frantic gesticulation and commentary, winds...