Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandfather clock that intones Land of Hope and Glory and sprouts tiny Union Jacks. The set is a top-floor apartment in an architecturally senile London building. The ceiling leaks plaster, the walls are held upright by a huge wall divider, and one can step unwarily on a rug, as Eugene does, and sink a foot or so through the rotting floorboards...
Sandman began his campaign promising lower taxes. However Cahill removed the rug from under Sandman's feet when he announced a $200 million surplus in the state's budget...
...know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were able to see as much of Grumpy as anyone would wish. Clad in skivvies and sprawled on a bearskin rug, he posed for this month's centerfold...
...Harvard could attack the many crises which it faces in a piecemeal fashion, taking each separately without bothering to study the effects of any solution on other areas. Harvard needs to re-examine the entire housing system and answer the many questions which have been shoved under the proverbial rug: how large should the College be, is the separate freshman year an outdated concept, can Radcliffe become an attractive alternative to Harvard without creating two House systems...
Filling one corner of the theater, Wayne Mitchell's elaborate set enhances the illusion of dream. Mitchell has included every detail -- the torn green couch, the faded rug, the moldy wallpaper -- as if to say: if you had been stifled in this apartment for so long, you too would remember all its soiled and tattered furnishings. The potential weight of this massive set dissolves under Donnally Miller's lighting. By highlighting or spotlighting the actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors...