Word: baseboards
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Their rooms were damaged as firefighters brokethrough walls, attempting to assess if the firehad spread into the baseboard of the structure,Bossert said...
...That understates the case. In his head, and in as much of his life as he can control, he insists on not being "Paul Newman." In his first scene in The Sting, Newman is discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will...
...common confusion of the narrators and the writer's identities, but I had assumed, and now I know mistakenly, that the personality which spoke through those stories would be incapable of speaking to me as she did--would be incapable of seeing me as nothing but a black, a baseboard off of which to ricochet her clumsy ideological balls...
...Texas oilman who owns the team, attempts to proselytize for this cult. He has had an office built to facilitate practice of his new faith. It has a teeny-tiny door you can enter only on your knees, a legless desk resting on the rug, pictures hung at baseboard level...
...space, i.e., the doorway leading to the kitchen. Trying for a work full of people, animals, flowers and so on that only the sophisticated could see, I used only canary yellow but with a human edge around the doorway as a playful counterpoint to the hard edge of the baseboard...