Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of the Governor's destructive environmental plans for the beautiful state of Washington, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to picture her not as a goldfinch perched near an unspoiled shore but rather as a vulture poised menacingly in a dark wood, or as an oil-coated mallard struggling in a polluted ocean...
...workers died in 1976 from accidents or disease related to their jobs (down from 5,200 in 1975). But OSHA has overreacted by jamming every conceivable danger, however remote, into a 7-ft.-thick code that must be the world's most boring reading. Consider this example, on the wood used in ladders in factories and shops: "Knots of less than l˝ inch thick in diameter are permitted on the wide face of portable wooden ladders provided they are at least ˝ inch back from either edge; the slope of the grain in side rails shall not be steeper than...
...fire-insurance adjuster in Minnesota, I can see benefits of the wood stove [Dec. 5] to the homeowner and disaster to the small insurance companies. You wouldn't believe the wild ideas people have. Cheap little stoves that get red hot. Good stoves too near the walls-so the heat sets fire to the dwelling. Stovepipes plugged into old or too short chimneys. They all spell unwanted fire...
...freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior of a small chapel, for which she made five white-on-white wood sculptures and a white-and-gold Nevelsonian crucifix...
Flashing back through the last ten years, we see Suzanne suffering in the barren French countryside, chopping wood, feeding geese, brushing her hair back with a dirty hand and a sigh. The camerawork here resembles a series of still photographs, romanticizing the harshness of country life, portraying Suzanne's parents as priggish, old-fashioned country people. The severity of the surroundings is so exaggerated that instead of echoing Suzanne's misery it just makes her look silly and implausible. Would a hip woman from Paris really resort to practicing her typing with the cows in the barn to avoid disturbing...