Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleopatra got decked out in a rug, and Scarlett O'Hara, fresh out of frills, went to town in Tara's velvet draperies. Contemporary women can now be almost as enterprising. They can pick from Designer Jenny Bell Whyte's new collection of "Museum Pieces," which gives proof that some of the best fashion around has for years been underfoot, on walls and over windows...
THERE'S a really moving moment in Flesh, a silent stretch of film invested with a stunning measure of poetry. Joe, nude, feeds little pieces of cupcake to a baby; both of them are highlighted against a splendid Oriental rug. Warhol people have done more to explore the aesthetics of the naked body than any other film troupe, even if their efforts are occasionally in disastrously bad taste...
ROBERT INGERSOLL: I would not like to see us get into a position where there would be retaliation against us from other countries. We had such an experience in the early '60s, when the glass and rug industries prevailed upon President Kennedy to raise tariffs because they were being injured. The Common Market did not retaliate in those industries, but it immediately put a 40% tariff on styrene-based plastics. My company happened to have built a plant in Britain, thinking we could ship into the Common Market, and the new tariff just cut us off. Foreign countries will...
Ellie? A chaste and timid rich girl with whom, nickel by nickel, Parr spends his time. She plays the piano in her Manhattan apartment while Parr lies on the rug listening: "It is this foot that I see most clearly, a rather generous-sized foot in a heelless brocade slipper working up and down on the soft pedal while I lie there on the floor watching it at eye-level. In answering Bebb's ad, I am sure that I was, among other things, hungry for fortissimo...
...could we know that the violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecaps? How could...