Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rug on, ruggers. Another beer...
...juniors $950, and seniors $1000. And this year, with total expenses rising $1600 from last year, an agreed-upon $300 was passed on to each student's self-help package along with other adjustments, according to Elizabeth M. Hicks, associate director of financial aid. "We are not pulling the rug out from under anyone," she says...
...boxing gloves." Smith has hung a sign on his office wall that reads: SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman August Busch III has reportedly disparaged Miller's parent company, Philip Morris Inc. of New York City, by making derogatory remarks about "tobacco people" and lecturing his executives on the effects of smoking...
...allure is not at all dimmed by the fact that she is the daughter of Stavros' immediate boss and chief tormentor at the store. During World War I, Stavros has magnificent visions of a Greater Greece, when the wicked Turks will be laid low as the profits in rugs soar skyward. They almost come true. Meanwhile, the sisters grow older and unhappier. Of his favorite, Eleni, he remarks, "Her chest now was as flat as her back and the lines around her eyes had deepened . . . He remembered the soft-skinned, soft-eyed girl who'd arrived in America...
Kazan, whose Greek immigrant father was a rug importer, may have shared some of his character's social trepidations as a student at Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist...