Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funeral ornaments dating back to the Old Silla dynasty (5th-6th century A.D.) display a barbaric splendor never before found in East Asia. Discovered amidst a stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...
...used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant that though architecture changes more slowly than painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What happened to architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what they mean, what they do, how they...
...baubles and gewgaws. Among the more decorative (and authentic) memorabilia have been the 300-odd reproductions and adaptations designed and distributed by the Metropolitan Museum. They range from a $4.50 charm to a $2,000 gold statuette of the Standing King. Hieroglyphs, geometries and other Egyptian themes adorn jewelry, sheets, games, puzzles, rugs, glasses, ice buckets, stationery, scarves, trays, tote bags, hairdos, plates, pots and posters. Tutmania has also produced such vulgarities as T Shirts (HANDS OFF MY TUTS) and such culinary abominations as sphinxburgers...
Upon first inspection, everything looks quite in order in the castle of the reigning kings of college hockey. ECAC title banners from five of the last seven years adorn one end of Boston University's shining palace, Walter Brown Arena. Across the way hang three NCAA title flags (1971, 1972, and 1978) and a banner listing the six Beanpot crowns that the Terriers have claimed in the seventies...
Thus lured, thousands of foreign tourists now set out for Andorra every weekend, causing monumental traffic jams along the narrow winding roads that lead to the tax haven. Once picturesque towns and villages have been despoiled by advertising. Posters of Johnnie Walker and the Marlboro man adorn the walls of roadside buildings, and billboards displaying the Ron Negrita girl under a palm tree contrast improbably with the splen did white peaks of the Pyrenees beyond. Cutting through the capital city is a gaudy strip of neon, glass and concrete, featuring gilt-balconied hotels, high-rise department stores...