Safavieh added several new
shag collections to its line recently, including patterned and textural ones.
According to Hem Sagar Baral, Chairman of the Nepalese Ornithological Union, with the breaching of the Koshi dam in 2008, the Indian
Shag may have entered Nepal for the fish stock in the Koshi river that went up temporarily.
The student said he was horri-fied to see a poster and internet site promoting the event stating "find someone you want to
shag, text their number to the big screen, wait for them to get jiggy".
Wendy Reiss, key account manager for Kas Rugs, said the recent popularity of
shag rugs demonstrates how texture can be a sales driver.
Shags, eider ducks, guillemots and razorbills, have all done well.
'In The Hills, Watching': Among the nerved grass, thrones,/dominions of grass, in chokecherry dewlapped hills,/hills buffalo-shouldered with
shag of pulsed heat, meek hills,/sandhills of rose-hip and aster, in the philanthropic silence/the frail piston of all,/in hill heat, lying down in the nearness of deer./All knowing darkens as it builds./The grass is a mirror that clouds as the bright land goes in./You stay in the night, you squat in the hills in the cave of night.
A little farther downtown, another pair of California transplants have opened the
Shag Boutique in another historic Eugene building.
The theme continues into the bedroom, which includes a turquoise silk
shag rug, a glass desk with silk fabric insets, and a white bed offset by glow-box nightstands.
"It should be called the '
Shag' album and we should be called The Shagsters.
"Just one more
shag with my wife and I could die happy after this," I found myself shouting.
Like a dense
shag carpet, it smothers natural underwater inhabitants.
Almost any baseball fan would give his (or her) right arm to walk on the grass of "the house that Ruth built,"
shag flies in the outfield that was once patrolled by Mickey Mantle, sit on the bench formerly occupied by Yogi Berra, and tread the same bases as Joe DiMaggio, Roger Maris, Don Mattingly and hundreds of others who wore the Yankee pin stripes.
Literally, the surfaces depicted include Formica, plate glass, metallic wallpaper, mirrored sunglasses, plaid wool, flowered nylon, and
shag carpet; spiritually, the veneer is equal parts ennui, suspicion, and a sort of desperate, claustrophobic gentleness.
In 1984, he sponsored legislation naming the
shag as the state dance.
In the late 1960s and early '70s, bra-less and still sporting her trendsetting
shag cut from Klute, Fonda was ubiquitous, decrying mistreatment of Indians here, standing shoulder to shoulder with migrant workers there, and marching for women's lib elsewhere.