Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regrets. The decor will be, in Mrs. Abell's word, "Christmasy." Holly and topiary trees flecked with "teeny white lights" will adorn the East Room. Seven attendants in gowns of Goya red will vie for the eye with the 32-member Marine Band's scarlet tunics. The groom, Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, will wear his dress blues. He has had little say in the preparations. "Mostly, he's chief in charge of the honeymoon," Mrs. Abell explains...
...which had floated to the ceiling. It was a sublimation that kept them from plinking away at each other. At one point, Colleagues Rosemary Murphy and Gene Hackman refused to speak to Sandy offstage. But several of her revisions stayed with the show after she left-and even now adorn Any Wednesday productions in summer stock. In any case, she could do no wrong with audiences: her first-scene line "I'm really adorable" invariably got a rapturous ovation...
...biggest splash of the week, in the end, was provided by one of Berkeley's star exhibitors, Sculptor Peter Voulkos, 43, known as the "daddy of funk." The San Francisco Art Commission voted to adorn the Municipal Hall of Justice with a 24-ft.-high piece of Voulkos sculpture, but the chosen piece hardly looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree...
...American Dental Association convention in Dallas, there was disagreement over something that patients have long taken for granted: the safety of dental X rays. Although the A.D.A. has been encouraging the use of safer X-ray machines for years, many devices of antique design still adorn countless offices. Some have not even been equipped with an electronic timer, available since 1955, to go with the use of high-speed film and cut the exposure time to a fraction of a second. The vast majority still have, at their business end, a plastic cone three or four inches long. This makes...
...many girls, most handpicked from the Freshman Register. Apparently the photographer thought the group looked too bland, because he scouted the decor of other rooms in the entry until he found a wall-size collage of nudes. It served as a back-drop, covering the staid maps which usually adorn Kelman's walls...