Word: carpeteers
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...that precarious vantage point, they saw hundreds of thousands of Cambodians moved out of the capital, as Sydney H. Schanberg of the New York Times (see THE PRESS) put it, "in stunned silence-walking, bicycling, pushing cars that had run out of fuel, covering the roads like a human carpet...
...Jordan's celebration, Boston Women is at the center of the crowded room, contained within a red carpet. Its two major structural components are the six groupings of a total of seventy-two door-sized white panels, and a slide and tape presentation with separate viewing area set behind the rest of the exhibit. In each group, six panels are joined in a kind of flattened-sawhorse formation so that the panels participate in a connected, four-side, walk-around display. The viewer moves from group to group, circling each separate area. Over each section hangs a long blue banner...
...there Americans! I'm Richard Nixon, remember me? Remember the effervescent early seventies? Remember those challenging times when we had both recession and inflation, the glittering carpet bombing of Cambodia in Christmas of '72, the days when a politician could be two-faced without being two-timed by a baby-faced, punk afraid of being molested in prison...
...evening prayers when he received me in the audience hall. He sat in an armchair centered against the wall at one end of the spacious room. Other armchairs lined the sides of the room, which was decorated with blue and white pilasters, crystal chandeliers and wall-to-wall beige carpet. Other men sat along the walls, and occasionally one would get up silently to hand the King a folded letter or speak quietly to him. Meanwhile, a servant served bitter Bedouin coffee in handleless cups...
...considerably less intricate. It concerns a large, grumpy bird named Mortimer who takes up residence in a lower-middle-class British household, also inhabited by a small girl named Arabel. Mortimer's unquenchable hope is to find diamonds in the family coal scuttle, but he soon branches into carpet eating, letter spearing and serving as unwilling accessory to a diamond heist conducted by a trained squirrel and a pair of inept gangsters...