Word: tile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graves' Hotel New York has a stolid maroon, teal and coral facade. Inside, though, the joint comes alive. Giant floor designs of the Mets and Yankees emblems, an arcade evoking the city's subway system, Broadway posters, corridor carpet that looks like carpet on tile, a lamp in the shape of the Empire State Building, and big apples (big apples!) everywhere. It's Gotham without the crime or grime. Pure Gotham, pure Graves, pure Disney...
...compensation, have The Crimson print all their names in a corner of the paper near "Doonesbury" for a week or so. It's either that or have the paper run another front-page story about a first-year student getting hit on the head by a falling ceiling tile while he was on the john. Complete with a picture...
...habit of talking to people...since I've been that high," Wernher P. says, gesturing to an imaginary point about two feet above ABP's tile floor...
...naked. I also remember her standing in front of me rubbing her breasts. At other times, she would fret over whether my bowels were all right. A regular ritual was a cleansing enema of sudsy water made with laundry detergent. I still recall the feel of the tile bathroom floor as I lay there on my left side while she administered the preparation. "Breathe deeply," she said while we waited for her brew to work...
...tile floor, which tends to get a little sticky. And there's a depression in the middle. When there's a party, the depression fills up with what Peppercorn describes as "kind of a combination of beer and mud and other bodily fluids." It's known, in 10-Man lore, as "Lake Sereika," in honor of a former 10-Man resident who passed out there once...