Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is the kind of thing I'm talking about, folks!" he cried. "This is the kind of thing that bothers me. When the President of the U.S. has swept so much dirt under the rug that you have to walk uphill to get to the Democratic platform; and when he can, by twisting the arm of any U.S. Senator or Congressman, call off an investigation that I am now convinced leads to the White House, then it is time for a change. This is a question of morals, it is a question of honesty or dishonesty...
...Addams Family are successful incarnations of the necrogeists in Charles Addams' cartoons. Their house is a great Victorian cobweb with a bear rug that growls when stepped on, a stuffed sailfish that has the legs of a child protruding from its mouth, and a mailbox with a hand in it that receives letters. Including guillotined dolls and thoroughbred spiders that are raised by the children, the props are obviously first-rate, but the people are even better. Beautiful Carolyn Jones plays the mother, Morticia, with a chilling verve that should make any dead-blooded man want to share...
...officials pleaded the Party's case at the White House. They secured from the four LBJ aides assigned to the "Mississippi question" a shaky promise of Administration neutrality. Johnson now realized that the FDP enjoyed fairly broad and prestigious support, that it could not be neatly swept under the rug...
...officials pleaded the Party's case at the White House. They secured from the four LBJ aides assigned to the "Mississippi question" a shaky promise of Administration neutrality. Johnson now realized that the FDP enjoyed fairly broad and prestigious support, that it could not be neatly swept under the rug...
...Also a Rug. Sometimes the artists aimed at subtler, more evocative effects. A pitcher will have a gracefully elongated spout that suggests the head and neck of a crane. Undulating snakes represent water, the perennial need of hot, parched lands. While the Iranian artists frequently represented animals naturalistically, they occasionally resorted to a kind of symbolic shorthand that foreshadows the geometric forms of modern art, using circles for eyes, U-shaped mouths and heart-shaped ears. The millennial parade culminates, fittingly if inevitably, with a sumptuous 16th century Persian rug, the art object that has been one of the world...