Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instant Nostalgia. In most cases the results are decor-thin imitations, with euphonious Olde English names, a few Tiffany lamp shades, perhaps a portrait of Churchill or a boar's-bristle dart board that no one knows...
...business. Franchisers build national chains dealing in everything from popcorn to part-time help by licensing others to invest in and operate stores or offices; the franchiser makes money from the license and by selling supplies, techniques or recipes as well as nationally advertised signs, slogans and decor. Such operations now do a combined annual business of $25 billion, are growing 10% yearly...
Impulsively, Jean invites the ensign home to admire the Provencal decor and share her chicken salad, and in no time at all she is half mad with guilt over "some sort of animal hunger" that has driven them together. Looks more like vegetable hunger, really, but whatever has got into them doesn't agree with Sean. He turns nasty. They quarrel. A gun goes...
...whole production shows unerring taste. Boris Kaufman's subdued color photography evokes nostalgia the way old snapshots do, pulling the mind back to floppy hats and turbans and the horrors of early modern decor. Lumet skillfully sustains the drama's reminiscent mood without losing his amused detachment toward the well-educated, privileged creatures who, if nothing else, will remain loyal alumnae till the day they die. Virginity, infidelity, Communism, hard times, conception, contraception, Hitler and high fashion are their concerns. Balefully sizing up the groom at the group's first wedding, a bleak ritual in Greenwich Village...
Sandra, though lento-paced and pretentious, does create a bewitching atmosphere of decadence. While the old, ordered world passes into limbo, Visconti savors every detail of a cavernous manse where each drafty, half-lit corridor and every gleaming bit of crystal augurs ill. But finally the decor becomes a bore, and even Visconti's human characters seem used up, lifeless, set into place like figures in a faded tapestry...