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...excited about that Giant Killer Asteroid streaking toward our planet. For a few delicious hours, cataclysmic devastation on an unparalleled scale hung in the air, perhaps the end of civilization as we know it. It happened to the dinosaurs; now it would happen to us! Then--bam!--the rug was pulled out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside Of Doom | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...henchmen looking to extort money from the more estimable of the two Mr. Lebowskis have accidentally searched out the Dude instead, and when the Dude proclaims his indifference to the whole situation, one of the goons pees on his rug. (No one said this movie is elegant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coen Brothers' Loopy Lebowski Is Rife With Memorable Characters | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...really the quest to reclaim his rug--which, he says, "really tied the room together"--that embroils the Dude in an unsavory kidnapping case which has absolutely nothing to do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coen Brothers' Loopy Lebowski Is Rife With Memorable Characters | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...Lebowski its title. His opposite number is better known as "Dude." Played by Jeff Bridges, he's a burned-out beach bum whose mental clock stopped sometime in the '70s. But when some thugs, mistaking him for his namesake, invade his pad, beat him up and, worse, ruin the rug that ties the whole living room together, he seeks redress. Or at least some replacement carpetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: The Big Lebowski | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...discovered that my room could accommodate a large couch. I covered its garish pattern with a large blanket. I got a coffee table and hid a contraband DeLonghi toaster-oven in it. I never used the oven; it just made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show for me from outside my door while I tried to do homework...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: Interior Design: Heavenly Inspiration | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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