Word: floorings
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...ultimately about inflicting pain, taking what you could and holding on to it like a common thief. You understood the irony of it all too, those thousands of false statements representing your false life, a great, mad construction you slowly began to embrace up in your secretive 17th-floor fantasy world, the way a young boy believes he's Superman when he puts on a cape. The difference is you never grew up, Mr. Madoff, and we're all paying for it now. But maybe because of what you've done to us, the rules of regulation will be changed...
Walk into a typical dorm-room party on a weekend night and you will observe the remnants of our civilization, smashed into shards and strewn across the floor...
...orchestras and Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club musicals like “Nine.” The skill of the musicians combined with the gallery’s acoustics, so clear Wu likened them to those of a cathedral, produced a pure and energetic sound that resonated throughout the fourth-floor galleries...
...contribute to a visual one. The art among which Wei and Wu played—works by artists as stylistically and chronologically diverse as Edgar Dégas, James McNeill Whistler, Fra Angelico, Daniel Chester French and contemporary artist Max Grotjahn—is united in the fourth floor galleries to draw “attention not only to technical and stylistic innovations, but especially to continuities and revivals of themes and styles,” according to the galleries’ posted introduction...
...original mansion - an expansive cream-colored Art Deco affair that today accommodates the hotel's sought-after Imperial Suite on its top floor - has been supplemented with two perfectly matching wings, which in total make for 122 guest rooms. Each features a terrace that overlooks either the waters of the Perfume River or the distant stone towers of the former Imperial Citadel. Decked out in warm ocher, dark woods and raw Vietnamese silk, the rooms exude good taste, but the suites in particular benefit from wooden four-poster beds and themed décor that can depart, rather fancifully, from...