Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roughly $38), he serves what must surely be the world's most expensive cup of coffee. Funakoshi readily concedes that it is not so much the quality of his coffee (a home-blended brew of charcoal-roasted grains freshly ground for each customer) or the decor of his establishment (a narrow, dark wooden hut decorated in rustic Mingei style), as the defiantly exorbitant prices that attract hordes of tourists to his coffee shop...
...decor is the most attractive thing. While waiting for your order, wander around and look at the bizarre stained glass windows of Bobby Orr, Germaine Greer and other public heros. The tableau "How Spaghetti Grows" on the hall leading to the bathroom is worth its own trip to the john...
...50th report of his college class, he wrote that he was "grateful to Harvard beyond measurement." "Of all the privileges granted to me," he added, "I cared most about teaching, especially on my return from World War II, to find Radcliffe in the front row of Harvard Hall, bringing decor and color, taking notes and outlines from the board, and flattering the professor by close attention...
What is the ultimate Moravia fable? Surely The Invisible Woman. As stripped of decor as its subject, this little anecdote depicts almost blandly the tragicomedy of a wife whose husband quite literally looks through her. The chilling aftereffect upon the reader makes the horror of science fiction banal by comparison...
...advisers and ministers must be ready to receive a call from him," says an aide. The call could be about almost anything, since Ceauşescu (pronounced Chow-shess-cue) insists on passing judgment on all manner of problems, from the working conditions in a coal mine to the decor inside the capital's new National Theater...