Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hard Rock Cafes feature pop memorabilia decor, and the wall of the Boston branch will feature guitars and record jackets from Boston-based bands including Boston and the Cars, Kilgore said...
...bold solids, is a yuppie favorite. As for colors, earth tones -- drab tans, harvest golds and avocados -- are now out of favor. Yolk yellow and soft pastels are comers, and classic Wedgwood and Williamsburg blue are being revved up to purples and periwinkles. From California to Connecticut, country French decor is most popular...
Still, not all customers are satisfied. "Some people think they want a decorator," says Noonan, "but when you suggest something, they say, 'Oh, I can't do that!' What they really want is a coordinator." Instead of making proposals, a coordinator implements the client's own ideas. Some decorators perform that service too, right down to the thank-you gift of a pair of , earrings, color coordinated to go with milady's new decor...
Japanese bargain shoppers increasingly covet neglected American gambling casinos. Last April, Ginji Yasuda, a Korean-born Japanese, reopened the 1,100- room Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas after buying the ailing complex for $54 million and spending $30 million more to restore its glitzy decor. He plans to shuttle customers from Japan in a posh jet equipped with sleeping cabins. Says Yasuda: "You have a lot of dreams still available in this country that you don't have in Japan...
...restaurateurs are playing to the enduring dream of an island paradise that has beguiled such disparate spirits as Gauguin and Gilligan. The idea is to create a Caribbean state of mind, drawing inspiration from Key West to Trinidad, with occasional wide detours to Brazil and Mexico, and stressing decor and drinks. The palette runs to hot pink, orange and turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like Windex to the uninitiated. Frozen in slush machines, the rainbow drinks of tropical fruits and assorted rums, vodkas and liqueurs sport such names as Bora...