Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters are suffering, too. Especially Anna. She dances, yet her studio apartment is carpeted. She probably has horrible rug burns. And she has unbearably tacky ballet posters hanging in her apartment that she has to look at every day. She has painfully boring sex with both her lovers. And she clearly lives with the psychological stress of having ESP--she always reaches to answer the phone before it actually rings...
Funded by a $50,000 donation from the grandson of the library's benefactor, the carpet was selected by members of the Lamont Beautification Committee, said Heather E. Cole, librarian of Lamont and Hilles. Cole said the rug was part of a plan to cover the cork in all public areas of the building...
...tight-weave mauve rug, which was installed in August and September, is expected to stomp out complaints about noise that Cole said have been numerous in the past...
Purists could gripe about the field's springy artificial turf, which produced unpredictable bounces, carried through-passes out of bounds and left players on both sides with painful rug burns...
Junior midfielder Sue Carls admitted that the turf is unpopular, especially when it rains. Don't worry, though. To prevent rug burns, Carls said Harvard players would wear Spandex and spread Vaseline on their legs...