Word: adorn
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...attracts the wealthy, the beautiful and the famous. The bar has two rooms, a smaller and more intimate lounge perfect for lingering over cocktails and a larger livelier one with a DJ spinning hot tracks. Deep mahogany bars swoop through both rooms as glittering stools and faux-fur pillows adorn plush sofas. Call ahead and reserve a table so you won’t have to wait for service with the other plebeians...
...from Cambridge College, specializes in both congeniality and comfort food. On a recent Sunday afternoon, three employees bustle about behind the counter and below a menu of pizzas, hot and cold subs, salads, spaghetti and simple red and yellow paintings thereof. Pictures of chefs, family and the Virgin Mary adorn the back wall of the kitchen. Red plastic booths overflow with pleased patrons and Impressionist prints in gilded frames crowd the wall. A large cardboard box of cans and bottles demonstrates the establishment’s environmental friendliness. The cashier rings up a meal totaling $6.04 but requests only...
Little-T and One Track Mike chose to adorn the cover of their debut album with two toilets. On the inside are more urinals along with the duo scarfing straight peanut butter, gallons of milk and mountains of cookies. The aesthetic of Fome is Dape’s album art says a lot about the aesthetic of T and Mike’s music. This album should not, however, be dismissed as the work of clowns. Rather, the pair of white rappers has produced a delightfully whimsical, eclectic and self-aware album...
...Jean-Paul Sartre once said "It occurs to me that New York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment...
Deep inside the Pentagon, past hallways that still reek of burned metal, a windowless first-floor conference room has been transformed into a fully operational command center. Color-coded floor plans and organizational charts of key personnel adorn the walls, and teams of sturdy men and women wearing fatigues swing in and out, ready to be deployed. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Steven Vieira oversees the operation, dispatching troops swiftly but carefully. His goal is "100% contact and saturation." The enemy is not human but ghostly, flickering here and there on the faces of the nearly 20,000 Pentagon employees...