Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Games. But there he was, laid out by a freak accident six weeks ago, just as he was getting ready to begin his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage...
...compensates for the lack of door handles by having a custom grille, milk-glass headlights, dual spotlights, hand-formed taillights, rolled and pleated in-tenor with a cocktail bar, tape recorder I usually play rock 'n' roll") and a white imitation angora rabbit fur rug The fur was my wife's idea," says Lee Betty has taken a right lot of interest m this car." The chromium-plated engine is treated as well as the passengers The engine compartment is lined with red imitation rabbit...
...orange, grey, brown and blue paintings in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery are intimate scenes: Mildred Lamar Hooking a Rug is as innocent as a colonial primitive; his children in a room or walking on the lawn are devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality...
...desire for freedom apparently suffice to explain the boys' ambitions. But finally Stavros realizes that to reach America he has no choice but to defile himself. He does not hesitate. Angling for a dowry to buy a steamship ticket, Stavros consents to marry the daughter of a wealthy rug merchant, whose bourgeois contentment repels him. But he has begun to concoct American-sounding rationalizations for his new tactics: "You have to look out for yourself in this world. You can't afford to be human." Soon Stavros abandons his prospective bride, a gentle girl whom he warns, "For your...
Inquisition or romance unrolls a faded rug before the fallen yellow sun before the prickly tree fringe beyond the stones and chimneys...