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Stained-glass windows, at first merely a part of decor, soon became an obsession into which Tiffany poured his talent and technical brilliance. He explored luminescence and color in his windows with an intensity that would credit a modern painter. Instead of using lead cames, or frames, at regular intervals, as glassmakers had done for centuries, he incorporated the metal strips into the design, as outlines for trees and riverbanks. His vision was limited by the few kinds of glass commercially available, so he invented and patented his own brand, called Favrile glass. By 1900 he boasted that he could...
...17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass plate on the bar marks his presence, and his face ornaments the menu, which includes a rumsteak au poivre Hemingway...
...place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section of the Dome has been turned into a really excellent fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor and atmosphere. The baked turbot is superb, and the Macon makes it even better. But if the sausage is only a memory, so is the old price: dinner for two costs...
With its slums abutting the sea, its raffish hoodlums and its Day-Glo deco decor, Miami is the city to which all Jonathan Demme films aspire. Married to the Mob ended up there, long after Baldwin had played his memorable cameo as a Mafia stiff. Funny thing is that Demme only produced Miami Blues; his colleague from the Roger Corman B-movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods...
...boardwalk in Atlantic City sits "The Donald's" billion-dollar gumdrop. The design is preposterous, the decor outlandish -- but then, did anyone expect the Waldorf...