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This is a play about people who care too much about others and those who care too little. Ozzie Ann (Chelsea Toder, Tufts ’07) beseeches her husband not to take his life—at least not on the carpet, where she will have to remove the stains. Et (Alex S. Glasser ’06), the only character who manages to keep his head, is also a horny 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who steals purses after his family is kicked out of the house. “She’s some woman...
While many hotels offer red-carpet treatment for their best customers, typically they don't charge extra for it. Managers call the perks a cost of doing business that's built into nightly rates, and the VIPs seem to consider it money well spent. In a recent poll, almost two-thirds of well-heeled travelers listed "being pampered" as a top priority, and an American Express survey of affluent consumers found that those who crave luxurious experiences last year spent an average of $26,400 a person on them. Brett Anderson, editorial senior vice president of the Robb Report group...
In the final episode of The Office, sarcastic clerk Tim (Martin Freeman) describes the central absurdity of working life. You have nothing more in common with your co-workers than the carpet you walk on, he says, and yet you have to spend more time with them than with your friends and family. Leaving a job, he might have added, is even stranger: suddenly, to your "family," you no longer exist, and a new sibling takes your place...
...employees to go out for a drink--begging, really--in the mistaken belief that they love him. Only Tim accepts, to break the awkwardness--but also, perhaps, because he and David, like war veterans from opposite sides, share a bond that only they can understand. They have walked that carpet. In the end, The Office suggests, that's as good a basis for a connection as any. --By James Poniewozik. With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/ Los Angeles
...sitting on your couch in Old Quincy and you’re stunned, all but empty, the response paper and other article you’ve been working on shoved mercilessly to the side. Moments ago, you had left your friends and your seat on a dirty green carpet in DeWolfe because a change of scenery felt necessary...