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Wing-chair psychiatrists who seek character traits will need a full hour to analyze the Treaty Room, which now serves as the President's home office. George Bush had it done in pale green, with much English chintz; ranks of miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Family Values | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a seven-foot-tall guy proceeded to draw a huge pink anatomically correct man on my ceiling. Within a short time, people had covered every available surface with fluorescent chalk--mantel, windowshades, windowframes, bookshelves, doorjambs--and began to look for new places to draw, such as their friends' backsides...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Endpaper | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...feeling that his work has been corrupted by its commercial reuse, and this is because of its clarity and intelligence. Magritte's paradoxes still slice cleanly. No matter how many times you see the small locomotive steaming from the living-room fireplace in his Time Transfixed (1938), with the mantel clock pointing to 12:43 and every grain line in the wooden floor in place, it will still come from behind its utter familiarity and surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

COLUMBO GOES TO COLLEGE (ABC, Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST). Peter Falk, a new Best Actor Emmy on his mantel, returns as the rumpled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 10, 1990 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...artwork, made with water-based paint and gel, was commisioned last May because the dining hall "needed some color, some pizzazz" after the Fogg Museum took back the tapestry which had been hanging over the mantel until two years ago, said Leverett House Master John Dowling...

Author: By Arnold E. Franklin, | Title: Leverett Buys New Painting | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

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