Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes had shuffled through the room in its first nine years, the carpet had been light and buoyant, as if in entirely different colors. Out in the Grand Foyer, a regilded ceiling now gleams above; plummy new fabrics provide a frame for the gold-backed mirrors along the walls; and over the great staircase Ezra Winter...
...someone thought was Kuniyoshi's yet was really more like what you might see on the homemade backdrop of a high school production of Oklahoma! But the handsomely repainted version by Yohannes Aynalem will delight no more than half the Music Hall's audience. It decorates the ladies' powder room on the mezzanine...
...suffering from a common sports injury. Variously called black toe, jogger's toe or tennis toe, it's characterized by bleeding under the toenail as a result of repeated trauma. I'd worn thinner socks than usual, which left room for my feet to slide forward, banging my nails many times against the front of the sneaker, or so-called toe box. Shoes that are too big or slippery can create the same problem...
...that the foot is still fully expanded. Always wear the sort of socks you'll be wearing during the sport, and check that you have a thumb's width--about 1/2 in.--of space between the tip of your toes and the front of the sneaker, giving enough room to wiggle them...
WHERE: The Bloomberg News computer-training room...