Word: carpetting
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When it was over and the two leaders turned to walk away down the red carpet, Clinton reached out and put his arm around Netanyahu. It was an instinctive gesture for the President, an effort to convey warmth amid a general chill. Awkwardly, Netanyahu reciprocated...
With back pay identified as among the most irksome issues, the team advised that Yeltsin haul officials on the carpet for failing to distribute the cash as he'd directed. The President embraced that suggestion with relish, and the press eagerly reported the boss's taking his subordinates to task...
...American dysfunction again, the spilled Slurpee on our nylon carpet of dreams. The difference between Welcome to the Dollhouse and other recent explorations of middle-class desperation is that writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't think it's funny. Neither does he think it's tragic. His Dawn holds no promise. She's not particularly bright nor more than usually sensitive. You don't think her misery is grist for some novelistic or poetic gift that will one day provide her with sweet revenge on her tormentors. It is, at best, material for some future psychiatric monologue wherein...
Gardiner took power dressing to a new level when she accepted her Academy Award in a dress she'd made of credit cards because she was broke. Resourcefuness like that quickly garnered her offers for big-budget films. "America rolled out the red carpet for me," says Gardiner. "I'm very grateful." Nevertheless, this year, while her dress was attending a fund-raiser in Portland, Oregon, Gardiner watched the Oscar ceremony from her home in Bondi, Australia. Why did she go back? Seeing a stuntwoman she'd just been talking to decapitated on a set didn't help. Ultimately, though...
...language test, not only in Freshman Week or subsequent undergraduate years when they did nothing with languages other than English, but years later, the day the corporate computer looks for who put French above the bottom margin of a resume and summons the Harvard grad upstairs onto the deepest carpet to translate the prioritaire fax from Gabon...