Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buzzed all over Washington in a public appearance-packed visit. He gave press conferences, consulted with top Administration officials and subjected himself to probing questions from members of Congress about human rights violations and Pakistan's nuclear program. At the White House, President Reagan laid out the red carpet for Zia and threw in high military hoopla, including troop reviews and 21-gun salutes...
...look hard enough, you can find every conceivable type of holiday item in the shop. But while browsing, let the buyer beware. Step on one section of carpet in the corner of the candle room, and you'll trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...
...Deputy Chairman Vasili Kuznetsov, the new Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision problem that seemed to explain the stooped, hesitant walk...
...stage reduced to one endless stretch of carpet-portions of which move up and down throughout-the inhabitants of this world stalk about in clothes ranging from a blood-red kimono to assorted feather boas and beaver caps. Their manners are peculiar, but their props and other accoutrements seem designed to inspire total familiarity...
...their lives, as Howard Hughes learned when he was unable to block unauthorized accounts of his life with lawsuits. But, says Allen Snyder, one of Taylor's lawyers, "this production invents incidents and manufactures dialogue." Claims Taylor: "It's completely fictionalized unless there was somebody under the carpet or under the bed during my 50 years...