Word: rugs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Deukmejian, the son of an Armenian rug merchant, took office proclaiming that "there are no limits to what we can achieve" and promising to seek "a new era of opportunity with responsible progress and growth which expands outward for all who seek work." His two-day inauguration included a two-hour show starring Dean Martin and Peggy Lee, a half-hour ceremonial oath-taking (attended by Brown and former Senator S.I. Hayakawa), a reception for influential campaign contributors and a black-tie ball. The $500,000 celebration was produced by Walt Disney Productions and MGM/United Artists...
...Nickleby company faced a new challenge: how to transfer its achievement, on tape, to TV. Would the production be "too ... tremendous" to fit into the home screen? Ideally, actors would have crept out of the TV frame, perched on top of the console, strolled across the living-room rug to shake out the viewer's passive complacencies. Practically, TV Producer Colin Callender and Director Jim Goddard had two options. They could create a new production for television, with naturalistic sets and discrete scenes, thus reducing the grand babble to Masterpiece Theater whispers. Or they could allow the actors...
...still the same old story. The Lisbon plane always descends like a kid's toy landing on the living-room rug. Stick-figure Nazis in animal faces (Strasser a wolf, his aide a fat little pig in glasses) come strutting off. That night at Rick's they chorus Die Wacht am Rhein, the stein-swinging bully song that is the Nazis' idea of a good time in a nightclub. The defiantly answering Marseillaise stirs the soul and raises its Pavlovian goose bumps for the 15th time. They still pronounce "exit visa" weirdly: "exit...
...persuaded by the arguments of free trade economics, almost all the world's noncommunist countries have agreed that protectionism is a dirty word. But the tenuous consensus reached in Geneva last Monday by the GATT ministers fails to break down trade barriers. Instead, it just sweeps them under the rug...
...near the Ganges; Hindus and Muslims arguing and imploring in a post-Sanskrit Babel of belief. This is the ominous Oriental setting of Don DeLillo's (End Zone, Ratner's Star) seventh and most accomplished novel. There, in prose as vivid and densely knotted as a prayer rug, his characters find freshly printed petrodollars competing with ancient formality. This, in DeLillo's phrase, is the world of "plastic sandals and public beheadings...