Word: adornment
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...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...
...since more than 100 Lebanese civilians were slaughtered by an Israeli artillery barrage on a U.N. compound. In that time, the village of Qana has become a shrine to Lebanon's rage and anguish. Photographs of the victims, who include at least 25 children under the age of 12, adorn a cement memorial. Black banners decry Israel's "terrorism" and "barbarity." But did Israel attack the U.N. base deliberately? Lebanese say yes. Israel vehemently says no, it was an accident. Last week the U.N. reported on its own investigation by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's top military adviser...