Word: chintz
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...David's Overcamp and Gammons, is painted in a delicate cousin of Pepto-Bismol pink, and follows the carefully upholstered chintz precedent set by "The Philadelphia Story" this spring. Sound, designed by Jane Shaw, is minimal in the Ex; but the set's window was never broken without a crisp effect. Dune Becker's lighting maintained a rosy comedy glow even when the situation looked dark for the cast...
...Shostakovich's "Jazz Suites" are quite unlike any jazz that we know today. They don't even correspond to the jazz compositions attempted by Igor Stravinsky at the same time--his were far more exploratory in chord structure and overall form. Shostakovich's jazz embodies a kind of ethereal chintz that might call to mind, on first listening, the London compact disc, Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam attempt to bring forth that light naivete in all of its utter inocuousness...
Wing-chair psychiatrists who seek character traits will need a full hour to analyze the Treaty Room, which now serves as the President's home office. George Bush had it done in pale green, with much English chintz; ranks of miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table...
...must have been on his mother, but, he says, "she didn't cry in my presence." He moved uptown to an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment that included his father's second wife Carol, so demanding that she once told the wife of the Paris bureau chief to get the chintz curtains cleaned immediately. An adolescent boy, however well house trained, can seem like an invasion of Visigoths. "It wasn't easy for either of us," Sulzberger says, "but she handled it with great sophistication...
Passion and Chintz...