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...didn't make my bed in all my years of college, and I never dusted, or swept a rug," says Downes, retired from a lumber company which bears his name. "We lived so well, it's incredible...
...travels, just now, with a light load of baggage (see following story). Her physical possessions, she says, amount to not much more than the ragbag of goofy clothes that serve as her professional and private wardrobe, a ten-speed bicycle stored in New York and a Chinese rug in Los Angeles. No house, no apartment, no car, no rich-at-last jewels or stereo system. She seems to have passed through the lives of a lot of people and to have remained in not many. She sees her father and stepmother only rarely...
Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...
Plimpton said that much of the national media, including one New York television news program, originally believed that the ascetic pitcher, whose main worldly possession at Harvard was his yak hair rug, was actually burning up the Mets' camp...
...nine more checkerboards and play all his opponents at once, never losing. Whole tour buses, making the Southern azalea-magnolia-plantation circuit, were made to wait while their drivers lost to Double-Trouble Roach. And then, early last fall, the Roach gas station and fruit stand had the rug pulled out from under them--by the highway department, of all things...