Word: decoration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name, is more like the kind of bar to be anticipated in a big university town. Maybe not a bar for undergraduates, the Wursthaus appeals to anyone who likes good foreign beers (the selection of beer upstairs is the best in Cambridge) and quiet. Try to ignore the decor, which is an awful attempt at South German kitsch. Also the food is worth avoiding, just as the beer is worth making a special visit for about once a month. The prices are very high here, and the drinks (especially upstairs) are weak...
...display their talents, she spent $5 million to transform an abandoned movie palace into the first U.S. theater designed specifically for dance. What was once the grubby RKO Colonial is now an intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass...
Most children-and their parents too-respond quickly to the lively decor of the radiology department. But it is Brodeur's magic that enables him to distract even the most fearful child. He pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
...Guard has a ruggedly masculine decor. Large black-and-white action photos of the Minnesota Vikings adorn the walls. Near the bar is a football souvenir shop called the Pro Central, and the young, long-haired and busty bar girls wear football jerseys with their names printed across the front. Because the football stadium and hockey arena are only a mile away, Viking and Minnesota North Star heroes often drop in after games. When they do, heads turn and female bodies surge forward. "Our theme is built around violence," says Manager Larry Thiel. "Women seem captivated by the manliness...
...ordinary filling-station look of a dentist's office is obscene, repulsive," says Frankel. "I hate it. Why can't dental offices be beautiful?" Indeed, Frankel and Winograde are so convinced of the importance of aesthetic surroundings that they sank about $50,000 into decor alone, compared with about $1,500 spent on furnishing a typical dentist's office. The Beverly Hills dentists have also catered to the other senses; in addition to the soft carpets and music, they offer nervous patients sherry and cognac. More effective anesthetics are also available: a sign at the reception desk...