Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only director really dealing with human intelligence, Lang consructed for Mabuse deep sets whose fantastic decor reveals the imaginations of the characters. The Countess's extremely broad and deep rooms are filled with African masks and huge primitive statues which she wonderfully explains in the words, "My brother is a cubist." We immediately sense a world, not exactly that of the early twenties on the Continent, but informed with the essence of that time. The mood current among the rich, joining malaise to brilliant cultivation, typifies a dying upper class that feels no threat in extinction. Their easy lives...
...Crimson is the deep almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrity of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson, and the inescapable hard work that goes into...
...Crimson is the deep. almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrity of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson, and the inescapable hard work that goes into...
...ground floor dining area was beginning to fill with lunching businessmen as Mr. Stack guided me to Harvard Hall, the main lounge. The decor was more "Harvard" than Harvard, and the men were a part of it. Dignity. Civility. White-haired men in baggy suits sat under framed images of themselves, while younger men stood expressionless in front of a TV screen which flashed silent, gray reports from the New York Stock Exchange. A granfalloon indeed. Each man reading his newspaper, comfortable in being alone with others like himself...
...Crimson is the deep, almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrity of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson, and the inescapable hard work that goes into...