Word: decorous
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Being a particularly empathetic witch, Griselda sank into a blue study, clashing perhaps with the room's green decor, but infinitely in harmony with the young man's misery...
...Gallows Knoll." When Curtin turned on the music last week, Marlowe acted fast, sued for an injunction. Curtin expressed astonishment. The gibbets, he explained, were just part of the decor: he planned to name his place "Gallows Knoll." And he had meant no offense when he turned on the music. He just liked to hear hillbilly music, and turned the radio up so that he could listen as he worked in his yard. Besides, he was not happy to hear the recorded hymns that waft from the cemetery's public-address system every Sunday. "It boils down to this...
...decor of each gallery was adapted to the pictures it housed: one roomful of Rembrandts was placed against rich red brocade draperies; against a green brocade background Titian's Venus and the Lute Player took on a sensual grandeur. Other rooms were done in soft pastel shades or fine-grained wood veneers: Jan Vermeer's wonderfully clean Young Woman with a Water Jug was flanked by two exquisite German vases in a cool green room...
Kind Sir (by Norman Krasna) reached Broadway to a fanfare of trumpets, with $750,000 in advance sales already in the till. A Joshua Logan production starring Charles Boyer and (in her first nonsinging role) Mary Martin, its opulent costumes and decor half suggest that Miss Martin is still playing musicomedy. The whole thing may well prove the greatest letdown of the season; it is a sumptuous bore and a gilded vacuum...
When jaded appetite and flat wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...