Word: chintzes
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...civilized life is all veneer, as thin as chintz wallpaper and easier to strip. Consider Margaret Murchie, who is the guest of honor along with her new husband, William Damien, heir to an Australian fortune. Margaret has been linked to three mysterious deaths. She was the last person to see alive her grandmother, her schoolteacher and a nun at the convent where she went to atone for the death of the first two. Now she would be happy to dispatch her wealthy mother-in-law, Hilda Damien, who is expected for dessert...
...pressure Wasserstein feels to come up with material is frequently evident. Disappointment that a weekend in Maine was not a chintz-covered, Ralph Lauren-infested affair but rather one where the couch was acrylic and the drink Diet Coke is stretched to five pages. A lunch interview with Philippe de Montebello is a struggle to win his admiration. When she drops a name he recognizes, she writes, "Once again we are on equal ground." Equal ground with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? So eager for approval, she becomes the journalistic equivalent of Sally Field at the Academy...
Decor as such doesn't much excite Strasser; he is not one for gushing about some marvelous chintz or a divine settee. "I hate wood," he says, editing that a moment later: "I hate wood used in the wrong place, in the wrong way." "I don't like furniture and fabrics," he says, before once again catching himself: "No -- I don't place a high value on furniture and fabrics." But often he lets the absolutisms stand. "Every time I do a space, I like it better before the furniture comes -- without exception." And when it comes to colors...
...only 67 shots, each separated from the next by a few seconds of blackness, and three funny bits. Artfully done, with offhand references to directors ranging from Byron Haskin to Yasujiro Ozu, Stranger Than Paradise has the odd odor of something left too long behind Aunt Bela's chintz couch. Yet it has been extravagantly praised and is a box-office success in its Manhattan debut. Rarely has a movie so fetid been so feted...
...crew member, a tipple on the town led to chills and thrills. After unwinding at the Tee-Pee Lounge and Chintz's Bar on a Saturday night, Hallinan slipped on a jetty as he was boarding the Ann Blessey and fell into the icy water near the bow. It took ten minutes for the crew to fish him out. "That was the biggest excitement we've had," said Wills. "Leo joined the Polar Bear Club...