Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meticulously studied the dress and traditions of the tribes they represented. "Spurs, chaps and guns make a cowboy," declared Edgar Aich of Hamburg's Gemeinschaft Norddeutscher Indianerfreunde (North German Society of Indian Friends). "To be an Indian, you must get into the red man's soul." Serge Parquet, 52, came all the way from Paris with his tepee; as "Chief Walking Bear" he is president of France's Le Cercle Peau-Rouge Huntka (Huntka Redskin Circle). "This is like Mecca to a Muslim," he told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. Special guests at this year's council...
...that is left is the final disco, held in the room where policies on hunger, energy and voter apathy were thrashed out. Red lights flash over a parquet dance floor. The room fills with the blast of a band from Washington. The name of the band is Survival...
...customers are seated on red vinyl chairs around small, black cocktail tables, while at long bars on opposite sides of the room, shots and beers are dispensed to small clusters of men. The room is dim despite red, orange, green and blue lights. Over one end of the wooden parquet dance floor, though, the ceiling is raised a few feet to accommodate spotlights of various hues, a mirrored revolving ball and two suspended slide projectors. On Tuesdays, four floodlights shine down on a 14-ft. by 14-ft. boxing ring, complete with cushioned corners and a taut canvas mat. After...
...York City and is planning to open more. Next month Dalton is opening one of the nation's largest bookstores, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. It will carry 100,000 titles and have ten departments offering 125 categories of books. The religious and health sections will have parquet floors for a feeling of stability. The technology section will be paneled in walnut, and the young readers' section will be colored a bright Star Wars blue and green. A glass elevator will connect the first and second floors...
Curator Clem Conger shut the East Room and put in a new parquet floor. After 30 million tourists since 1948, Lyndon Johnson's Fox-Trot, Jimmy Carter's Charleston and a few other indignities, the wood was paper thin...