Word: terrazzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawrence Malkin, the screened initiates are placed in the lotus position on the hard terrazzo veranda. Rajneesh enters in a floor-length white robe. One by one, the candidates for instant sanyas prostrate themselves before him and receive a 108-bead mala (necklace) with the guru's plastic-covered picture dangling like a locket, and a personalized tidbit of wisdom from the guru's lips. (To a psychotherapist: "You will need much work because a psychiatrist is more puzzled in a way than a psychotic. Lose control. Let it happen.") Each apostle also receives a new name. Henceforth...
...taxable income by Nixon. For example, at Key Biscayne, a concrete shuffleboard court was destroyed to make room for a Secret Service command post. It could have been replaced by one of equal quality for $400. Instead, the General Services Administration spent $2,000 for a much more elegant terrazzo court. The staff decided that Nixon should be taxed on the $ 1,600 difference...
...delighted. "We will do Rio one better," he said, and charged no fee for his services. By May, Calder's sketch of a series of vivid geometrical shapes (including his initials) was translated into engineering drawings. Then one night recently, workmen set the design in black and white terrazzo...