Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work became, as Kaplan stresses, a curious synthesis of extravagant, imaginative decor with an almost pedantic spirit of academic research. Of this synthesis, Salome Dancing Before Herod is the masterpiece. Perhaps it is not, in formal terms, a great painting. But it is quite unforgettable, suffused by apprehension. Salome is less a dancing girl than a priestess, absorbed in her solipsistic gesture, gliding on point across the inlaid floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil...
...galactic attraction of the previews was Yves St. Laurent, perennial sun-prince of haute couture. Midst gypsy violinists and the Second Empire decor of his new couture house, St. Laurent presented a collection that left little doubt 1974 could turn into the year of the dress. Unlike the sad "sack" of the '60s, St. Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just...
Among the three, it's largely a matter of personal taste. Baskin-Robbins has the most flavors and often has good, offbeat treats like Pralines and Cream. Brigham's, with its screaming red, white and blue decor, is a little over-packaged; it has a good selection but is usually the most crowded of the three. Its ice cream is a little softer than the ice cream at Baskin-Robbins or Bailey's. Bailey's has by far the most charm of the three--marble floors and highquality ice cream--but its selection is limited and its prices high...
George Santayana '86 (if it were not he, it should have been, or was it Henry James?) once compared the human mind to a furnished room. If either of those two men were alive today they undoubtedly would have added the presence of an expensive decorator. With that addendum firmly in mind (as well as in the room), what changes in decor and in vista do we notice with the passage of 25 years...
With blue carpeting and simulated yellow-stained-glass windows, pulpit and miniature organ, the decor of the three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...