Word: corlis
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...greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid the greatest elegance available to me, burn for one brief moment! I hoped for a triumph of décor over loneliness...
...that confidently occupies its own scale but of inflated maquettes. Night Presence IV, 1972, which Nevelson offered as a personal gift to New York City-it stands at Park Avenue and 92nd Street-is the most successful of her public sculptures, but it is a virtually literal copy in Cor-Ten steel of a wooden piece that she made in 1955, enlarged to ten times the height...
...atmosphere is as heady as champagne. It is The Four Seasons, whose owners and chef have published a treasury of their most prized and coveted preparations. Rumanian-born Tom Margittai and his Hungarian partner, Paul Kovi, took over the restaurant in 1973, at a time when the décor far outdazzled the dishes...
...blue overalls and armed with fire extinguishers took positions in hastily erected tents in the city's many traffic circles, ready to fight any blaze started by Iranian bombs. "We are ready for this war and have been for a long time," a high school student told TIME Cor respondent Adam Zagorin. "Like the Iranians we are Muslims, but Khomeini is a devil who has forced his people against us." Iraqi newspapers played up the propaganda aspects of civilian casualties caused by the bombings, showing pictures of mothers and children injured and in shock. Said the captions: "They fail...
Other department stores may try to win back recession-scarred consumers with glamorized décor, personalized service and accordion-like credit arrangements. But K mart Corp, knows that the way to the shopper's heart is still through the pocketbook. Most of the 1,750 stores around the country that show off the company's big red K are riding out the recession relatively well, and the discount chain may displace Sears, Roebuck and Co. as the U.S.'s leading retailer...