Word: decoration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shallow empathy that perverts sympathy into sensationalism. He sees himself as the artist messiah, bridging the gulf between art and life with a film style incarnating creative energy. But his subject depends on its special social and artistic history for its form and interest, and Russell piles on period decor more for effect than for comprehension...
...concessions to accepted Russian dance taste, which has been shaped by the 19th century-oriented Bolshoi and Kirov companies. Indeed, he offered some of the company's most abstract works, like his Violin Concerto (set to Stravinsky) and Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations (Bach), dances that eschew decor, spectacle and story line in favor of balanced and unbalanced compositions that are mod, sexy and athletic. The results were varied. The Georgians in their sunny Italianate capital, Tbilisi, responded more enthusiastically to those works than ballet-goers in Kiev and Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony...
...advertise several times a day over WEEI that its Decor "defies description." The shelves of the "priceless antiques" are lined with Readers Digest Condensed Books. Germaine Greer, Bobby Orr, Spiro T. Agnew, Margaret Mead and others are illuminated in apostolic garb against the far wall. At best, the decor can be described as eclectic, at worst, obscene...
...wizard (or enchantress), sorcerer (or sorceress) and magus?the degree that La Vey holds. The ruling Council of Nine, which La Vey heads, makes appointments to various ranks on the basis not only of the candidate's proficiency in Satanist doctrine but also his "dining preferences," the "style of decor" in his home, and the "make, year and condition" of his automobile...
...Inns has a products division that makes and markets a myriad of goods: furniture, bologna, kitchen equipment-everything that is needed to start a motel from scratch. The division even manufactures prefabricated bars. One popular item is a $25,000 Club Escadrille bar, complete with World War I flying decor, wing emblems, portraits of Rickenbacker and Von Richthofen, and a muted sound track of planes landing and taking off. Though franchisees are free to get their equipment anywhere, most choose to avoid the bother of shopping around and buy from the parent company. Last year the products division sold...