Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth floor of 20 DeWolfe, a suite decorated in a Far Eastern motif brings cosmopolitan flavor to the relatively new apartment complex. Antique wooden furnishings add a lot to the room, as ornately carved chests line one side. A mauve and gold colored brocade ottoman sits on the oriental rug. The cane and glass coffee table offers a ceramic bowl simply placed in the center. In one corner of the room hangs an authentic, carved ceremonial mask from Mali used in coming of age ceremonies. A red and gold Chinese kite decorates another corner...
...discovered that my room could accommodate a large couch. I covered its garish pattern with a large blanket. I got a coffee table and hid a contraband DeLonghi toaster-oven in it. I never used the oven; it just made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show for me from outside my door while I tried to do homework...
...about 145[degrees] at takeoff, because of the 400[degree] exhaust thrown off by air-conditioning units a foot away), the electrical charge necessary to detonate the resulting fumes is roughly a quarter of the smallest spark you feel when scuffing your foot on a rug. Said safety-board officer Peter Goelz: "We had no idea how little energy it took to cause an explosion." Hall remarked, "I for one don't see how every ignition source can ever be eliminated." The obvious conclusion: instead of trying to snuff every minuscule fuse, designers should disarm the fuel-tank bomb...
...Role of Humor in Action Movies, Part II. There is a script imperative to sequels, it seems, to burlesque or mock the story's campier elements. Comedy pulls the rug out from under horror. Pretty soon, though, you have nothing: who has all the breath to laugh and gasp simultaneously...
...bowling alley--for a buffet lunch and light workout. When the job is finally finished, he takes a walk in the moonlight, has a light meal and sleeps five hours. On weekends he drives to a private desert encampment 45 miles from Riyadh, where he eats supper on a rug with Bedouin retainers called khawian, some armed with silver-handled Colt...