Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own 5½-room rental apartment on East 30th Street in Kips Bay, one of Manhattan's better-designed (by I.M. Pei) new buildings. Side by side with antiques that they picked up on foreign travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric colors, contemporary Spanish chests and floor pillows, and picked up a few Japanese...
...paradise of color." Currently under sublease to J. Davis Danforth, a vice president of Curtis Publishing Co.. Pahlmann's nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly...
...Great American Desert shrinks beneath the vast sky like a tiny golden prayer rug in a blue tremendous temple, and as the little black dart leaps gleaming into outer darkness the mind thrills at a vision of the supernal machine...
...that the party was doomed if it accepted the "freakish ideas" of those who sought to "repudiate the 20th century." Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall told a Seattle audience: "We won't survive by saying 'I won't play' - or by finding an enemy under every rug." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who got a two-minute ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 13,000 in Cincinnati, pleaded for unity: "Let's forget about being Nixon Republicans or Rockefeller Republicans -stop trying to pigeon hole ourselves. We're not far apart...
...operates like a huge, carpeted Escalator without steps. An upward-moving belt covered with a rug of white Caprolan fiber makes a ski area approximately 20 ft. by 55 ft. Wearing 30-in. "shortee" skis, the skier pushes off from the top of the platform, makes headway against the moving belt, which literally pulls the rug out from under him at speeds that can vary to simulate different slopes and snow conditions. The pile in the rug is thick enough to act something like snow, permitting the skier to execute all the standard turns...