Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conceived by Beckett, Endgame is a verbal battle between men on the verge of extinction. His stage directions call for a bare interior, grey light, and two small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all his time lording over his adopted son Clov, who proves mysteriously, incapable of disobedience to Hamm's tyrannical dictates. Hamm's ancient and dying parents, Nag and Nell, dwell in the garbage cans...
...Hills office, the private-banking lounge is tucked behind a door marked only by the number 403. A security guard shoos away the curious. Inside, the office is decorated with a Persian carpet, wing chairs and violet orchids. Says Richard Saalfeld, head of private banking: "We try for an interior look that's a blend between a private residence and a law office...
...sunlight streamed through abstract stained-glass windows in the Vatican's ultramodern audience hall, Pope John Paul II told 7,000 pilgrims last week that the practice and attitude of contraception were "harmful to man's interior spiritual culture." Roman Catholic couples, said he, must make a true spiritual evaluation of their sexual relations and express "mature availability to fatherhood and motherhood...
...depicts a stiff-arming ballcarrier, a suggestive pose these past 49 years to a literal-minded electorate that now numbers 1,050 experts, some of whom have seen a college football game this season. Although emblematic of the best player, whatever his position, the Heisman never has exalted an interior lineman, and runners have been preferred to quarterbacks. Flutie has the instincts of a runner ("I just love tucking the ball and taking off"), but he is a quarterback from head to toe, a distance of 5 ft. 9¾ in. "I don't know how I could play...
...connection with the kidnaping, may be locked in a battle with hard-liners in the regime who may have staged the abduction to embarrass him. According to the Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu, Jaruzelski received a report on party efforts that would "further strengthen ideological unity" in the Interior Ministry, a sign that he was trying to marshal his forces against hardliners...