Word: decorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kaiseki style associated with the tea ceremony, is by contrast all nouns. It is devoted to the thing-as-such, presented in small units with the precision of the razor knives that cut it and the picky exactitude of the little chopsticks that bring it to the mouth. Its decor is astringent, not sweet. Japanese cuisine's simplicity is a very high fiction, requiring too much skilled labor for it to be replicated in New York or London...
...mainstay of Brown social life is the campus snack bar system. Students who miss meals during the day can grab a bite to eat at places like "the Gate" and "the Ivy Room." Each spot has a different decor and undergraduates can use their meal 'credit', kept track of by a computerized system, to down some pizza or slurp a frappe...
...floors have been converted into offices, and the basement houses a University social organization, the Harvard Neighbors (see accompanying story). But no structural changes have been made in the building--only temporary partitions divide the rooms, and the ground floor still sports the decor of the gracious home it once was: Oriental rugs cover the polished floors, furniture gleams beneath the quiet glow of fine oil paintings...
...already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...
...down-home Kansas City restaurant frequented by Presidents and championed by some critics as the world's greatest barbecue joint; of a heart attack; in Kansas City. Upon taking over the place in 1946, Bryant swiftly introduced his own legendary sauce-red, grainy and spicy-and downgraded the decor, saying that fancier "wouldn't be no grease house...