Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, mice are treated in a far more deluxe fashion. A $1.6 million facility currently under construction in the Biological Labs will hold approximately 11,000 of the small furry rodents and attend to every want from decor--the halogen look--to health concerns--the facility will be completely virus-free...
PLACE LOCATION DECOR WHAT I ATE IMPRESSIONS WHY NO ONE GOES THERE Leo's Place JFK St., in between CVS and Whitney's, a bar which no one goes to. Yellow stools, yellow molding, yellow, yellow, yellow. Hot Dog with mustard, relish, and onions and a can of Sprite. When I ordered my hot dog, the guy asked me if I wanted mustard, relish and onions. I said "Yes," so he put onions on the hot dog, gave me a packet of relish, and he told me where I could find the mustard. The clientele consisted of a couple scruffy...
PLACE LOCATION DECOR WHAT I ATE IMPRESSIONS WHY NO ONE GOES THERE Yenching Mass. Ave., in between the Holyoke Center and the Porcellian. Red, red, red with Chinese paintings. Lunch Special (Hot and Sour soup, Beef and Broccoli, Fried Eggplant and Fried Rice), tea and water. It seems like a pretty standard Chinese Restaurant. The clientele was mostly Asian; the service was okay, and the food wasn't terrible. I had never had fried eggplant before and I sort of liked it. The Hot and Sour soup had a funky consistency, though. The food wasn't terrible when...
...three stars (Day-Lewis superbly stooped by rectitude, Pfeiffer so elegant and bruised, Ryder a young Audrey Hepburn in all her wide-eyed guile) are swathed in glamorous costumes and period decor. The congestion of old masters on a matron's wall suggests the confined space in which the story unfolds and the straitened notions to which Newland and Ellen must pay homage. The handsomely fussy design is meant to dazzle and deaden the viewer's senses -- as Newland is seduced by Ellen and suffocated...
...queue jerks forward again. Up the steps and in, after nearly 2 1/2 hours of waiting. How did tourists manage before there were sneakers? We go up the Grand Staircase, which is not so grand compared with other royal stairs -- Versailles, the Winter Palace. Much of its decor is covered in plastic sheets to save it from the friction of hoi polloi...