Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Renovations included installing a hardwood maple floor for basketball, bleachers with a seating capacity of roughly 3000, and a 1600-square-yd. Astroturf carpet that takes less than 30 minutes to put in place for lacrosse, baseball, and field hockey practices...
Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just as in our own lives we may hold a grudge against a neighbor...
...full youthful stride. A larger-than-life-size shot of Prom Queen Peggy Sue Kelcher (Kathleen Turner) and King Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage), who soon got married and later separated, captures the popular couple with their teen dreams intact and life's promises spread before them like a red carpet. The blowups could be relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe in. When the band launches into a moony ballad, folks in their 40s hit the floor to dance slow and close. And as a Mylar balloon sails toward the rafters, one aging yuppie...
Peggy Sue feels this way as well: the buoyancy of her past is out of reach. Charlie -- "Crazy Charlie," as he is called on the TV spots in which he manically promotes his appliance store -- has opted for a young bimbo, and Peggy Sue's carpet has worn thin with trudgery. At the reunion, the anguished smile she wears clashes with her old prom dress. "If I knew then what I know now," she muses, "I'd do a lot of things differently." Will she, though, when she gets the dream of a chance? Crowned the reunion queen, she grows...
...restoration that 7,000 sq. ft. of marble floor tiles were lifted, cleaned and replaced with pieces from the same quarry in Italy that had produced the originals. Workmen spent a year on their knees reconstructing the mosaic. When the hotel reopened, however, the tiles were largely covered by carpet. "It broke our hearts to see the rugs go down," admitted Project Manager Michael Darby. "But marble floors are hard on the feet and very noisy...