Word: treading
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...irregularity continues on the inside too: there is hardly a right angle to be found in the entire building. Indeed, the interior layout seems so complicated as to be al most recklessly baroque. Yet Aalto holds off excess by designing every light fixture, door handle and stair tread to fit the whole - and suit the user...
...path on Bridget's arm, asking what was wrong and then, after saying something really must be done, passing out in the backseat of the Delac, on his sweetheart's lap. Not to walk back to Peg's picking my way through the blackness with a load tread and louder whistle so Peg would hear me loud and clear and not blast me when, stepping onto his porch, his door popped open a crack and he stood naked in the glow, his hands hidden as I told him we'd be on his property a while longer, if it suited...
...then, a careful line the Faculty has to tread through the crunc. The University cannot cut so much that it loses the things that make it attractive, and it cannot cut so little that it is forced into desperate moves...
Woodside was aware that new academic subjects face special prejudices, especially when they are closely related to controversial current events. He tried to tread a thin line between academic respectability and ideological honesty by going beyond the immediate events of the war to their context in Vietnamese culture...
...conservatives are naturally appalled by both the style and the substance of the PBC, but not many are taking them too seriously. The Left is skeptical, suggesting that the PBC should be more explicit in its demands for social change. But the thing keeps growing, and yellow "Don't Tread on Me" buttons and flags seem to have ousted the smiley for at least a while. But like most of their decisions, a judgement about whether the People's Bicentennial Commission will become a force for social change or liberal grandstanders will just have to wait...