Word: linoleum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...draped over an arm of one of the chairs, had fallen asleep). There, on the top floor of the library with the lights of duplexes and of the Quad shuttle glinting below me, I found myself alone in the company of soda, snack and coffee machines and expanses of linoleum. “This is creepy as hell,” I said aloud, just to hear a voice. I was sorry when nobody told me to be quiet. When I descended again, letting the heels of my shoes clatter in the stairwell to dispel the quiet, I felt both...
...from the T-shirt that swaddles it and apologizes for the mess of clothing draped over his bedframe. Some snack food—two packages of Ritz crackers, a row of oranges—adorns the mantle of the common room. Several toiletries stand like chess pieces on the linoleum floor tiles, and the open door to a coat closet nearby reveals a jumble of cardboard boxes...
...setting, there’s not much beyond linoleum, track-lighting and wooden tables to recommend Dado as a hip venue. But, even so, it’s hard to fight the attraction of a fine tea. Maybe it’s the clean taste. Maybe it’s the warmth that a cup sends radiating from deep inside. Or maybe it’s just the new-age charm of being the kind of together person who finds an hour each afternoon to sip, smile and unwind. Buddhist monks have made the time for centuries, so why shouldn?...
...more subtle symphony in ochre and umber is created by the window of Brown's Custom Shop in Kingsport, Tennessee, photographed in 1985. The wall is brown, the rolls of linoleum on display are lime, orange and teak. But Eggleston's aesthetic also has a puritan streak that goes beyond the garish and distressed to encompass blank white walls and dry grasses...
...change is hard work. On this cold, winter night Huang, as official artistic director of the government-sponsored Shanghai Song and Dance Ensemble, is rehearsing at a practice hall in the outer suburbs of Shanghai. The turquoise linoleum floor is cracked and chipped. Strips of white cloth bandage the warped practice bar that rings the room. And two 2-m-tall heaters by a glass wall barely keep the dancers warm between routines. Now it's Huang's turn to perform. Quickly marking the moves with three other male dancers, he turns on the music and jogs into formation...