Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection of recent masterworks, the show is huge in scope. Beginning with Edvard Munch, the Norwegian whose eye for wood's texture and potential color (take a look at "Moonlight") taught pattern and mood to his followers, the exhibit includes the expressionists--works like Erich Keckel's "Two Men at Table" inscribed somberly and portentously "To Dostoevsky" --and winds up through the Bauhaus. The four Bauhaus portfolois (1921-1923) get Klee, and Feininger...
...each child in the successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
...woman could have been speaking for the entire neighborhood of small lawns and wood houses with peeling paint in bland shades of blue, gray, and brown--like most residential neighborhoods in North Cambridge...
...most impressive aspect of this rapid industrialization is its variety. Huge textile mills and wood-products plants have long played a key role in the development of the region, and they still do. But recently a host of newcomers, including many well-known corporate giants and some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift...
With $5000 of his own money, and with cooperation from city officials, Smith assembled miles of reflective mylar, 46,000 lightbulbs, a bunch of wood and a bunch of volunteers from various community groups to assemble the whole thing. "It all looked real flashy," Chuck says...