Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quietly resumed the practice of law, specializing in corporate and regulatory matters. In contrast to the Old World elegance of his precourt days at Arnold & Porter (where the firm's partners vetoed his return), Fortas' new Georgetown office sports Danish modern furniture. The man belies the decor: at 60 he seems sadder, his eyes tired and his polished wit dulled. But the shock of his departure from the court has not diminished his deep respect for law. In the first on-the-record interview he has granted since his resignation, Fortas offered TIME'S Dean Fischer...
...pictures, adds a little yarn edging and creates startling place mats. In Research Engineer Peter Gottlieb's West Los Angeles home, one child sleeps happily beneath a headboard made of bright cartons of Screaming Yellow Zonkers, a beloved popcorn product. Or consider Dr. Richard Gieser's sparkling decor in Wheaton, Ill.: his sofa is an old bathtub on legs, with one side cut away, lined with pillows. His favorite chair is another tub, upended. It has, Mrs. Gieser says, "a nestlike quality...
...Like It is possibly the cleanest and politest eating place this side of the Window Shop. It resembles the kind of homecooking enterprise that Dale Evans would launch if she and Roy moved to Cambridge. Not that the ambience is pseudo spurs-n-saddles. On the contrary, the decor is functional suburban, with its variegated red-brick walls left completely bare. Those huge blocks of lumber around the store-front so far as I could make out are there either to suggest the Forest of Arden or to keep the windows from being trashed...
Borrowing the concept of the classic American drugstore the French transmogrified it into a near-erotic experience. Over the past dozen years, several versions of Le Drugstore have appeared in Paris: multimedia bazaars featuring bizarre decor, intimate bars, lavish food and smart boutiques. The phenomenon bore only a dreamlike resemblance to the drug supermarkets of, say, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now, by way of cultural reexport, not to say retaliation, the metamorphosed drugstore has returned...
While U.S. hotelmen build almost entirely for the luxury market abroad, they place less emphasis on ornate decor than on such modern conveniences as escalators and automatic elevators, TV sets in rooms and ice-cube machines in corridors. Construction costs overseas- $30,000 to $40,000 per room -are as high as in many U.S. cities, and few new U.S. hotels abroad match the grand luxe service of the best of the older foreign-owned hotels. But traveling Americans like U.S.-style hotels for their informality, speedy checkin, reliable phone service and fast meals. Europeans, who have been accustomed...