Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran who refers to the program of economic reform as China's "second revolution." Whether in reaction to the paroxysms of hero worship that accompanied Maoism or perhaps out of a personal sense of propriety, Deng Xiaoping has actively discouraged a personality cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears to be on the increase. At the time of his 81st birthday last month, the Chinese press published...
Whether its trademark G's adorn loafers or luggage, suits or silk scarves, the Gucci name has long stood for quiet elegance at a price. Yet the heirs of Saddlemaker Guccio Gucci have proved to be noisy and unrestrained in their battles for control of the burgeoning family empire. In recent years, the best-known Gucci suits have been filed in courtrooms from Florence to Manhattan...
They won't adorn their bodies with flowing magenta robes today. Nor will they file past University Hall lugging signposts that bear class years. But the 12 Harvard clerical workers who call themselves the "Pipets" will be singing at one of the entrances to Harvard Yard...
Plimpton's pitching ace, pictured in Sports Illustrator's April Fool's article, is nothing of the sort Instead, he is a Chicago area junior high teacher, says Sports Illustrated photographer I ane Stewart, whose snapshots of the spurious hurler adorn the pages of this week's issues...
...whites, golds and reds) and intimate dimensions (only 1,300 seats) give it a light, cozy ambience. Trompe l'oeil reigns: columns that appear to be marble turn out to be made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...