Word: decore
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...stopping in New York City (through March) en route to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But the show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous in trying to please, offend and astonish all at once...
...store was very old and it was starting to show its age, "Driscoll said. Renovations over the summer entirely altered the set-up and changed the interior decor and fur- niture...
...says here, "just another form of addiction." The Wrenwood patients could be searchers or fools, the staff fakers or dupes-or healers. The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach is that he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing, as seductive as the sherbety decor of Carol's home, as mysterious as the illness that seizes her. It will also seize any viewer who dares to surrender to its spell. Feel free to laugh or scream...
...caricature of Jewett drawn by Michal Hlavac '97 spiced up the Harvard Club decor...
...skilled exercises in a trivial genre; they descend from earlier Dutch conventions-those towering masses of tulips and roses, full of squishy virtuosity; but they lack the architectural grandeur of earlier Spanish works and promptly induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never won him the success he deserved. But other...