Word: carpetting
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...soft lights and carpet give it a cozy atmosphere, and its long wooden tables are perfect for spreading out books and papers. But even if the Spalding Room doesn't entice you, the music library is worth a visit to sample its vast collection of classical and contemporary classical music. Visitors can also watch laser discs of operas and symphonies in private rooms...
...mother decorated the room in green--a light green carpet, a dark green bedspread. The walls are the unfinished softwood planks my father cut for me; his brother put the sockets in. They cut a hole in the old wood and built me a skylight. They took down the venetian blinds and put up modern Levelors...
...what she calls a "hierarchy of colors," an insertion of brown in between, When Mina (Sarita Choudhury), an Indian born in Uganda but forced to leave during Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians in 1972, falls in love with Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a African American who owns his own carpet cleaning business, they test the "Third World" kinship cultivated between the black and Indian communities of Greenwood, Mississippi. And it fails--no one supports the lovers' right to be together...
...thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender to no soft impulse when below. That is why Stevens was deaf to the nasty political...
...brought three bodyguards with him and insisted that all the nearby tables be kept empty." Even Schwarzenegger, who has his own restaurant in nearby Ocean Park, isn't spared. "Arnold is a good friend," Fischler says with a sigh, "but his place is like Denny's with a nice carpet...