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...average evening on the town tends to turn into an early snooze. Chinese opera and ballet are available, but themes are heavily propagandized. Atop the Tung Fang is a club boasting a small orchestra. The tunes run to Peking hit-parade items or swingy outdated Western numbers. The wall decor consists mostly of choice quotations from the Chairman-in Chinese, of course. Bar girls and prostitutes, once a feature of nightclubs in China, are no longer in evidence...
...exhilarating area of risk and give the same pleasure that rises from a daring work of engineering. His devotion to "rightness" gives his work a curiously moral edge. It is existential sculpture, the way that Norman Mailer's best novels and reportage are existential writing: no fat, no decor...
...quietly resumed the practice of law, specializing in corporate and regulatory matters. In contrast to the Old World elegance of his precourt days at Arnold & Porter (where the firm's partners vetoed his return), Fortas' new Georgetown office sports Danish modern furniture. The man belies the decor: at 60 he seems sadder, his eyes tired and his polished wit dulled. But the shock of his departure from the court has not diminished his deep respect for law. In the first on-the-record interview he has granted since his resignation, Fortas offered TIME'S Dean Fischer...
...pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
...Like It is possibly the cleanest and politest eating place this side of the Window Shop. It resembles the kind of homecooking enterprise that Dale Evans would launch if she and Roy moved to Cambridge. Not that the ambience is pseudo spurs-n-saddles. On the contrary, the decor is functional suburban, with its variegated red-brick walls left completely bare. Those huge blocks of lumber around the store-front so far as I could make out are there either to suggest the Forest of Arden or to keep the windows from being trashed...