Sarah Kane's Blasted picked up the challenge of bringing the horrors of a war zone into a domestic setting, though most critics were initially squeamish and dismissive of Titus-like scenes of incestuous rape, eye-gouging and baby-burial under the floorboards.
It hangs in the air and creaks under the floorboards.
Kemian Wood Industry, which used to boast of the quality of its composite floorboards, took radical steps to deal with the downturn.
"A couple of blobs of mercury fall through the floorboards and evaporate slowly over the years.
The government scornfully dismissed the criticism: better to provide shelter than ponder it in interminable working groups.From inside Gaiozi's bungalow, however, the critics had a point: the walls were damp, the roof leaky and worms occasionally emerge through the floorboards.
One hears the same stories all over Beslan: that it was Ingush workmen who scouted out the school for the terrorists during the summer, and laid weapons for them beneath the floorboards; that all the Ingush in Beslan left suddenly the day before the siege.
Everywhere you turn, cables to connect desktop computers are being strung under floorboards and around walls.
Sometimes people have left premises and hidden films under floorboards, or in attics, hen houses, churches and universities.
Floorboards need to be taken up to lag every pipe.
Even then, your money makes as much interest under the floorboards because the country's banking system is still stuck in the past.
This week, the EIA released a report accusing several big retailers in America and Britain of selling floorboards made from contraband wood.That is where firms like Sumalindo, the eco-friendly logging outfit in Borneo, come in.
