Word: decorous
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...shop strikes you at first by its altogether workaday decor; it looks like a tacky, run-down coffee shop, with signs advertising "water vibrations, spiritual hearing, tarot." When I was there, Christmas Muzak was being played. The several tea leaf readers go from table to table talking with people and dumping tea cups upside down to decipher the leaves...
...fiction, Strange Invaders is also social satire - in this case, on the very '80s belief that style is content, that anyone wearing or talking in the wrong fashion must be as odd as outer space. By slapping the two decades to gether (in Susanna Moore's knowing decor and costumes), Strange Invaders exposes the banalities and excesses of the popular art they produced. The classy cast (Paul LeMat, Louise Fletcher, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid) plays it deadpan but without a hint of derision, and coaxes the movie toward a full-throttle inspirational climax. As an evocation...
...kaiseki style associated with the tea ceremony, is by contrast all nouns. It is devoted to the thing-as-such, presented in small units with the precision of the razor knives that cut it and the picky exactitude of the little chopsticks that bring it to the mouth. Its decor is astringent, not sweet. Japanese cuisine's simplicity is a very high fiction, requiring too much skilled labor for it to be replicated in New York or London...
...mainstay of Brown social life is the campus snack bar system. Students who miss meals during the day can grab a bite to eat at places like "the Gate" and "the Ivy Room." Each spot has a different decor and undergraduates can use their meal 'credit', kept track of by a computerized system, to down some pizza or slurp a frappe...
...floors have been converted into offices, and the basement houses a University social organization, the Harvard Neighbors (see accompanying story). But no structural changes have been made in the building--only temporary partitions divide the rooms, and the ground floor still sports the decor of the gracious home it once was: Oriental rugs cover the polished floors, furniture gleams beneath the quiet glow of fine oil paintings...