Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were, of course, many degrees of intensity under the wide shadow of realism. Painters of rural life, like Jules Breton, idealized rather more than their urban counterparts. There was a lengthy tradition of peasant decor in French art, and artists tended to see the country as a happy escape from the grinding realities of the city-the great exception being Millet, with his unfaltering sense of the earth and its rigors, and the stupors it enforced on those who worked it. One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified...
...fulfillment are instructive. Nancy works tirelessly to make the world live up to her expectations. As First Lady, she will make the White House reflect what she likes to see. That means a comfortable formality for the private quarters. "I think I'm a frustrated interior decorator," she says, with the prospect of being frustrated no longer. Rooms upstairs will probably be done eclectically with English antiques, Chinese vases and old favorites from their home in Pacific Palisades. Freesias are her favorite flower-purple, yellow, red. In fact, red is Nancy's favorite color and will surely blaze...
Remember when the Yankees replaced combative manager Billy Martin with easygoing Dick Howser? Well, the Father's Six bar is undergoing a similar facelift this fall, as its management hopes to parlay its new name--The Bow and Arrow Pub--and different decor into larger, more peaceful crowds for the establishment...
Ring disagreed with Bornstein on the effect of the renovations. "It's not the decor of the bar room that starts fights; it's the alcohol. When young people get drunk, they can get very nasty...
...cosseting, cuisine and decor at these hotels do not come at Holiday Inn prices. A single room or the most modest double starts around $70 to $100 a night, depending on the hotel; suites can go as high as $400 or, in the case of L'Ermitage, $675. But the premium hotels' rates, which seemed Himalayan before inflation began to loop up in the past few years, are no longer out of line with what the better chains charge: an average of about $75 a night for a single at the Hiltons in New York City...