Word: carpetting
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...India!" does far less well by the decorative arts. The occasional jeweled jade cup or fragment of ancient carpet does little to bespeak the Indian sense of design. Sculpture is scantily represented, although the first object the visitor sees is a ravishingly full-breasted, round-hipped bronze of the goddess Parvati. Thereafter, however, the erotic in Indian art is discreetly underplayed. Of India's greatest glories, its large-scale sculpture and monumental architecture, there is scarcely even a photographic hint. In all the exhibition, the only room that comes close to conveying a sense of the objects in context...
Welch seems to believe that contact with the West, or at least with Britain, vitiated India's arts, and he proves the point all too insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...
Professors munched caviar, students sipped champagne, and realtors rolled out the red carpet for Harvard's president, as the University and a local developer yesterday celebrated the completion of University Green, the swankest condominium complex this side of the Charles River...
Harvard's only serious first half threat came on a breakaway by sophomore wing Cindi Thompson, who sprinted past several Huskie defenders to within 10 feet of the goal. Thompson slipped on the wet carpet, however, and her sliding shot dribbled to the right...
Back in Miami Beach, the show's crew has taken up semipermanent residence in the Alexander Hotel, where the walls are painted peach, the carpet has a magenta stripe, and even the lines in the parking garage have been repainted pink. Some civic leaders were originally unhappy at the prospect of a network- TV series blaring the city's crime problems into living rooms across the nation. But Miami Vice's success has quieted most of the naysayers. Miami officials estimate that the production contributes $1 million per episode to the city's economy, and the show may even...