Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marching through my personal Coney Island, I started to get bored. There was nothing to look at but the muted orange decor of the upper level...
Still, as any first-year knows, a well-lit room is not complete without wall decor. Indeed, before they even approached the subtleties of lamp fixtures, Ettus and her colleague, Amy W. Stevens '94 had already negotiated the Coop's poster and print department...
...rail rides are luxurious. On Amtrak, the national line, the amenities are fewer and the service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...
...hotel-lobby decor is not too much of a turn-off, you can find some good buys among Barillari's huge paperback selection. But the store lacks the personal touch of some of the Square's smaller shops, and you are likely to leave feeling underdressed and not the least bit thirsty for espresso...
Around the block is Temptations, which opened last year on the site of the old Haagen-Dazs. Temptations has more offbeat flavors than Licks does, but its mall decor is slightly unsettling. Temptations also weighs your yogurt portion, lest they give you that extra tenth of an ounce. Personally, we feel violated when someone weighs our yogurt...