Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...
...main floor of Lamont Library has a new look this fall, bedecked in "Ultraviolet Plus" carpeting designed to quell the squeakiness of the cork tile floor...
Speaking to one another in whispers, the hostages listen to Buckley's moans as he grows weaker, and finally delirious. On June 3, Buckley squats on the tile floor believing that he is sitting on a toilet seat, and food fantasies fill his head. "I'd like some poached eggs on toast, please," he mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last...
...fancy showroom is a sensory delight. Soft blue light dances gently around a pool of water on the floor, and delicate sounds of synthesizer music fill the air. On the gray tile wall, ten video screens display soothing images of running streams and ocean waves. Shoppers at the INAX Corp. showroom are delighted: "Suteki ((lovely))," murmurs Tokyo housewife Masako Yakou, happily browsing past rows and rows of shiny new . . . well, er, facilities. Gushes Yakou: "I love toilets...
...After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office: its wall of magazine covers, its panoramic view of Central Park, and its reflection of Trump himself in the gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit, it's on to the private quarters on the top three floors of the building: a sprawling 7,000-sq.-ft. living area with a 12-ft. waterfall and hand-painted ceiling he compares unblushingly to the Sistine Chapel's, a dining room...