Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other works are simpler. Weaver Urban Jupena created a platform covered with a shaggy rug on which conversationalists can sprawl out and playfully tug at the yarn while talking-an idea that can easily be adapted to the home. Apartment dwellers who have always wondered what to do with their skylight may take a lesson from Irv Teibel, a sound engineer. On four platforms beneath the museum's skylights, the contemplator lies back, while sounds of waves, distant bells, or birds singing come softly to his ears from recorded tapes...
...Adams junior said, as he was trying to wedge a large rug around a small stairwell in Bertrain Hall, "I used to have good reason for moving to the 'Cliffe, but looking at these four flights of stairs, I'm not so sure any more...
...room opened out behind the door, spacious and modern. Vag examined the beige rug beneath his feet, then diffidently raised his eyes to the light blue-and-green sofa and the shining desk and the blue-and-green tinted lamps. This was like the house of one of his daughters-in-law: it made him nervous but of course he complimented her on her good taste. In a light-green armchair sat a pleasant, youngish man holding a small book. Vag looked at him curiously. He felt obliged to state his business, but he had none...
Anthony G. Oettinger '51, professor of Linguisties and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, took the floor shortly afterwards and accused Newman, Kelman, and Ptashne of having made "an obscene deal: they have managed to sweep under the rug a number of important issues raised by the Cambridge Project...