Word: rubberizing
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...finally abandoned all attempts at stylistic harmony in his design for the New State Gallery in Stuttgart, which opened last year. The exquisitely proportioned classic entrance hall is assaulted by a bilious green Pirelli rubber floor covering and the gaudily painted steel frame of the elevator shaft. The circular interior courtyard, with sensuous marble nymphs basking in the glow of golden travertine and sandstone walls, is assaulted by vulgar pink and blue pipes that serve as handrails for a spiraling ramp...
...Otherwise no one would get their diploma on Commencement day," says Elizabeth Rew, a staff assistant in the Faculty's Office of the Registrar. "But the signatures look very real--not like they're just rubber-stamped...
...England Electric System President Joan T. Bok '55 is also the president of the 30-member Board of Overseers, a largely ceremonial, alumni-elected body which rubber-stamps Corporation decisions. Bok--no relation to President Derek C. Bok--sits on the board of Worcester based Norton Company, a billion-dollar manufacturer of abrasives, chemicals, diamond drilling products and other goods. Company spokesman Francis J. Doherty says 1400 of the company's 19,000 employees work at Norton's South Africa manufacturing facilities. The company has the top rating for adhering to the Sullivan Principles, Doherty says...
...some trauma glimpsed or experienced during the author's childhood in Montreal. In Orphans' Progress, for example, two wretched little girls are locked up in a French-Canadian convent school. Eight-year-old Mildred and twelve-year-old Cathie are bathed every two weeks, the one wearing a rubber apron and the other a muslin shift so they cannot see their own bodies. The state of Mildred's thumb tells it all: "Sucked white, (it) was taped to the palm of her hand...
...like Madonna!") could be out somewhere stealing hubcaps. Instead, all of them, hundreds of thousands of young blossoms whose actual ages run from a low of about eight to a high of perhaps 25, are saving up their baby- sitting money to buy cross-shaped earrings and fluorescent rubber bracelets like Madonna's, white lace tights that they will cut off at the ankles and black tube skirts that, out of view of their parents, they will roll down several turns at the waist to expose their middles and the waistbands of the pantyhose...