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Outstanding students who fill in an innocuous-looking bubble on the SAT application are inundated with piles of brochures and catalogs--the junk mail of the educated world. Further on in the process, they might be recruited, with all the associated perks--"red carpet tour days," "dinners with the dean," large aid packages, and in some cases, full scholarship offers...
...raining shards on pedestrians below. But Letterman is already gushing over his unfinished suite as if he had just moved into Windsor Castle. "Look at | this," he says, striding into the room in his workaday outfit of T shirt, shorts and sneakers. "It's brand-new. Clean walls. New carpet. Office furniture. I used to have a paper route, and now I have three floors of a theater building on Broadway in New York City. I'm the luckiest man alive...
...guys are terrorizing the place, and our indestructible cop hero must mow them down, holding a bazooka- size pistol in one hand -- and a newborn child in the other. No problem. Blam! and a villain's blood splatters a maternity-ward window. Boom! and a few more miscreants eat carpet. Surveying the scene, the cop shields the baby's | eyes and says jauntily, "Hey, X-rated action...
...Peabody--A.k.a "The South's Grand Hotel." The Peabody is famous in its own right for its legendary ducks, who come down from their penthouse every weekday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to walk across red carpet into a large fountain in the midst of the grand lobby. Those mallards are some of the most photographed paddlers in existence. The Peabody is also well known for its plethora of restaurants, gorgeous rooms and Skyway dance parties. It's just the place to convince a poor young law student and his wife that Memphis is the place...
...same dull, hectoring, narcissistic and politically simpleminded level; all complexity of artistic response has been ironed down into puerile rhetoric, one-liners that have no further resonance once you've got their meager point. Some have no point: How about a nice big wall covered in monochrome orange carpet, or a giant mound of Plasticine? The mix of witless conceptualism, pseudo documentary and weakly recycled minimalism is stifling...