Word: couch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once lit, turns out to be extremely large, about 35 feet long, and painted a strange shade of pinkish orange. There are two enormous desk-size color TV sets as well as a couple of legitimate desks, a spherical environmental chair with an unexploded artillery shell inside, a long couch covered with flower prints and wall shelves filled with gun manuals and almanacs. However, there is no bed. There is a set of double doors at the far end, though, and behind this I finally find the bedroom and my brother. The dogs are still carrying on in the distance...
...there you have it. No need to read the rest of the magazine. No need to go out anywhere and spend money. Just let the economy stagnate while you stay at home. Just let your body decay while you lie on your couch and stare transmogrified into the set. Just watch TV and read this scintillating column. What more could you want from life? Megalomaniacally yours...
...nights and a blinding brilliance of light. But the segment that qualifies as Lumet's tour de force lies elsewhere, in the scene showing Strang's brutal rampage through a stable--sparked by his failure to make love to young girl--that eventually leads him to Dysart's couch. After he has brusquely dismissed the girl out of frustration and shame, the unclothed Strang stands fully erect in the loft of the stable, hurling himself into the now familiar rite of horse adulation. Suffused with ambers and golds, the shot evokes a tinted Renaissance fresco, with the rapturous Strang projecting...
...sobriquet "Hero" at the beginning of the season. A soft-spoken native of Williamstown, Mass., Herne is so devoted to the sport that he poured all of his savings into the team. Currently, Herne's finances are so tight that he is forced to sleep on a friend's couch. He is now looking for a job to help meet expenses for next year. Herne says that like every racing driver, he depends on two qualities to be competitive: car control and strategy. Also like every other driver in this frequently over-romanticized sport, he must face the very real...
During the hour-long kaffeeklatsch, the President sat on the arm of the living room couch, and at one point invited Diehl, who was chairman of Iowa Farmers for Carter in the 1976 campaign, to stop by the White House to talk some more. Carter also chatted with Mary Diehl about her hobby of collecting arrowheads, and accepted a big hug from her granddaughter Wendy, 11. For Woody Diehl, the occasion was "beautiful." Said he after Carter's departure: "He's a farmer. He understood exactly what we meant...