Their tentative attempts to communicate are repeatedly thwarted as they continue to live according to different rules – one on the floor; one on the ceiling.
The outlets were located along the lower longitudinal edge of the floor, one on each side.
Employees I spoke to reported "morale on the floor"; one former care assistant admitted to taking on two more jobs to make up the shortfall.
Ms. Schecter's hand-tufted 5-by-7-foot wool carpet, on wall, is $2,700; on the floor, one of unbleached wool with an orange border is $2,100.
Eventually, he stashed me in a cold bedroom with a back-bruising mattress on the floor, one paltry blanket, and a boring book on the house's dead former owner, Judge Learned Hand.
"There were lots of things I found on the floor, one of his jazz pieces with a boot print".
Soldiers force hooded and naked prisoners into crouches on the floor, one by one, side by side, a soldier pointing to where the next ones should go.
Noah Wiley, Andy Garcia and Salma Hayek move freely on the floor, one level down from the multi-tiered luxury box crowd with their own catered menus.
Sitting cross-legged on the floor one evening, playing cards with the twins, my wife, Deb, suddenly felt her left arm tingle and then go dead.
After he dropped his pen on the floor one day, he said, she spread her legs so he could look up her skirt, then smiled.
Living in one room, his health deteriorated and Branislav found him on the floor one day after an apparent stroke, but Mladic refused to be taken to hospital.
