Word: linoleum
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...companies and carmakers. Women's liberation-or for that matter, the most unliberated drudge in Schenectady, N.Y.-would certainly want to protest the TV-commercial image of American women as a sorority of dirt-crazed psychotics sniffing one another's laundry and kitchens ("Housitosis!") and holystoning the linoleum like Lady Macbeth. The Women's Christian Temperance Union might have some words about beer and wine ads. Eventually, perhaps, horse lovers might demand time to talk about dog foods. It is tempting to think that before long the great debate of commercials would expand to fill more...
Gift Dynamite. The day after McGurk's was demolished, a six-story carpet and linoleum factory in East Belfast went up in flames. The fire, started by bombs set by two armed raiders, caused $2.5 million in damage and cost 600 people their jobs...
...CORK LINING. Ettore Sottsass Jr., a thoughtful Milanese designer intent upon creating an environment that is a "diagram of psychic processes, a therapeutic act," is now completing a Milan apartment lined with cork-faced linoleum, without furniture save for kitchen and bath fixtures...
...reporter) stand in the dreary brown and green, linoleum-tiled hall, the flickering fluorescent lamp reflecting off his short dry-look, blonde hair and his noncommittal gray eyes. And of course, the blue pin-stripe shirt, the navy club tie, the not-quite pointy black shoes...
...revealed their power and a glass of cold orange juice was the best thing that ever happened to you. . . . But that was a long time ago. Maybe a year or two later you dropped your first acid with a friend. And that was far out too, merging with the linoleum on the floor, muttering about unity and totality. Yeah, it's been a long time. Headplay at Theater Workshop Boston is about that first time; it's about the time in between. And it is about...