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...those allergy sufferers unconcerned with domestic decor, the National Institutes of Health recommends the following steps to achieve a dust-free, and therefore dust-mite-free, bedroom: Get rid of carpeting, upholstered furniture, heavy curtains, venetian blinds, fuzzy wool blankets and comforters stuffed with wool or feathers. Empty the room, scrub it and everything that is to be returned to it, and thereafter thoroughly clean the room every week. If replacing curtains, hang some that are lightweight and can be laundered weekly. Replace the comfortable chairs with wooden or metal ones that can be scrubbed, keep clothing in plastic zippered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allergies Nothing to Sneeze At | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

Like The Nasty Girl from Germany, Toto le Heros from Belgium and Delicatessen from France, Zentropa finds movie energy in spiritual malaise. These films take their cue from the dystopic visions of Blade Runner and Brazil -- pictures set in the future but cluttered with decor from the film noir past. The imagery possesses a kind of dour voluptuousness: bleak and busy. Their crammed, skewed compositions excite the eye. These movies won't push Lethal 3 off the multiplex screen; they can't compete with Hollywood product. And that is the happy point. They are appealingly strange -- different from the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Man Scheme | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Eight screens displaying computer animation set the futuristic decor. Pink dancing hippos grace the back wall, where four other screens show the movie classic Fantasia...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Store Is Also Playground | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

...true member of the cafe cult will insist, decor alone does not create true coffee shop atmosphere. For that, you need people...

Author: By Michelle K. Hoffman, | Title: Coffee-Colored Twilight | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...child happy not to know who his father is? In the projects, the boy with a father is king. In the wider world, children may go astray and end up being moral relativists, but in their formative years, they adhere to a code of conduct more traditional than the decor at Williamsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Quayle Has Half a Point | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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