Word: adorn
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General George Marshall's seems a curious portrait to adorn the Secretary of State's office in 1997, but the choice tells a lot about Madeleine Albright. The 1940s hero-diplomat crafted the ambitious economic plan that kept half of Europe on democracy's side. That world of us vs. them was swept away in 1989, but Albright still aspires to Marshall's "magic and very American approach," eager "to plant the seed" of democracy as he did. She has never forgotten how the people of her native Czechoslovakia, blocked by Stalin from joining the Marshall Plan, quietly absorbed American...
...face has not changed, but how we adorn it has. Yes, eyeglasses are utilitarian, but frames follow fashion as much as function. "They can reveal a lot about the times," says Robert Marc, an upscale New York City eyewear designer and retailer. The shape of the decade is marked by the shape of the lenses. Put your glasses on and play the Frame Game: guess who was wearing what when...
SLIM FAST Once merely the stuff of a decorator's dreams, thin computer monitors to hang on the wall or adorn the desk are fast becoming a (costly) reality. Hitachi's high-resolution plasma-thin Ovation is a skinny 3 in. deep, but it provides a 25-in. picture and can be hung as simply as a painting. Available in late...
...running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food, no clean water, no medicine, where orphaned children dash down roads for safety from incoming artillery shells. As for Hemingway's lovely lake, the expected epidemic of cholera would certainly adorn Kivu's shore with a necklace of corpses...
...tell a story. One of the first concerned a black woman named Sophronia, who worked for the family briefly during Hellman's babyhood, but was transformed into the main nurturing figure of her life. Later, says Mellen, "an enlarged photograph of Sophronia holding a tiny, impish Lillian was to adorn the drawing rooms of Hellman's mature life...