Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of it, Marienbad tells the story of a seduction-Resnais prefers to call it a "persuasion"-that transpires in what Robbe-Grillet calls "a grand hotel, a sort of international palace, immense, baroque, with a decor at once sumptuous and icy: a universe of columns, marbles, gilded panels, statues, servants in rigid attitudes; a clientele rich, polished, anonymous, unemployed. Seriously but without passion they play society's inevitable games-cards, dancing, vacant conversation, pistol-shooting. Inside this closed and stifling world, people and things alike seem caught in an enchantment.'' Among the enchanted inhabitants...
Proud of her tasteful changes in the White House decor, Jackie led a 45-man CBS crew (trailed by two tons of electronic equipment) through a day-long White House exploration; filmed last week, the guided tour will be presented on television next month. With a tiny microphone and transmitter hidden under her blouse, Jackie commented on everything from the curator's basement headquarters to the Lincoln Bedroom upstairs. So skilled was her performance that only one retake was ordered-and that simply because one of the television cameras had gone out of whack...
...words, be "a pleasant, exclusive circle of 2,000." Grumbles one member: "It's getting more exclusive with every thousand." Though the entrance is marked Members Only, Heinz Weigt confesses: "The manager has instructions to let in attractive nonmembers." As a result, the club's decor consists partly of aspiring starlets in hopes of catching a producer's eye with their daring decolletages. The open-Dior policy reached such extremes at a recent jump-for-joy contest at the club that one ample young actress leaped clear out of her sheath. The members cheered...
...Then out to the floor, where 24, 48 or 60 shiny, electronically controlled alleys are laid out for them. Thanks to the invention of the automatic pin setters, there no longer are elderly winos or jaded kids back in the well, muttering as they set up the pins. The decor is bright and comfortable, a sharp contrast to the smoky atmosphere that once made bowling nearly as disreputable as pocket billiards. Reflecting the new tone, alleys have become "lanes.'' and even the gutters that line the alleys are now "channels...
...behind a newly constructed, six-foot cedar fence, the President's eleven-room, five-bathroom summer White House reflects the tastes of Jackie Kennedy. Yellow. Jackie's favorite color, dominates the decor. The walls are light and are hung with seascape paintings, including a few of Jackie's own, and one determined primitive by the President himself, showing the Riviera port of Villefranche...