Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...florid, much laughed at language is still there; when the lovers adorn each other's bodies with blossoms, Lawrence has added a primrose "poised" in Connie's navel. But descriptions of the woods speak of a lonelier passion and are exquisite examples of an art at least as difficult as writing about sex. If this book does not convince anyone that it should become the accepted version of Lady Chatterley's story, it is at least nothing for Lawrence lovers to be ashamed...
...time-honored principle that female nudity is an asset to any sales campaign, the West German subsidiary of Japanese Fuji Film wanted a naked woman to adorn one of their five ads in Stern, West Germany's second largest illustrated weekly (circ. 1,600,000). Admen Günther-Jürgen Bahr and Claus Harden of Düsseldorf winced. Nudes are so common in German magazines that Fuji's ad would look like any other page in Stern. How to get the reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with...
Robin Wagner has well captured the contrast between stern Rome and luxuriant Egypt in his sets; especially striking are the warm golds that adorn Alexandria, and the 15-foot-high double columns that support Cleopatra's monument--all skillfully lit by Marc Weiss. John Morris's music is markedly better than what he provided for Caesar, though it is still a bit obvious in its quasi-exotic effects...
Until recently a visitor to the track locker room in Dillon Field House could marvel at the hardware in the trophy case by the water fountain. But space in the case has been slowly increasing recently. In Philadelphia on Saturday the Heptagonal team trophy, one that used to adorn Harvard's case regularly, remained in Penn's possession for the second straight year...
Undeterred by the higher cost ($4.95 for 200 as opposed to $2.95 for the conventional kind), more than 500 customers have already signed up for the illustrated checks. Most of them have selected pictures of their families or pets to adorn their checks, but some have seized the opportunity for more imaginative self-expression. A Chinese customer, for instance, ordered checks illustrated with a portrait of Chairman Mao. An advertising executive displays a photograph of himself seated on a soapbox, while another patron adorns his checks with a bottle of his favorite whisky. The manager of a San Rafael branch...