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Next morning 6-10 tells Fred of a present he's got cached for him: an elk head with full rack he's ripped off a carcass. Fred's real artsy and thinks it might go well with the decor in his new apartment. Briggs and I tell Fred he can sit in the back with his honey when we pull...
...Japanese community need have no qualms about placing their parents in Los Angeles' Keiro (which translates as Home for Respected Elders), a 184-bed facility that bespeaks the Oriental tradition that old age should be a time of ease. Keiro's appeal ranges from chaste Japanese decor to good food served from a gleaming stainless-steel kitchen. The home also has a largely bilingual staff that is genuinely interested in the welfare of its patients, and a program that includes everything from physical rehabilitation to concerts on traditional Japanese instruments...
...short-lived "movements" that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
...entering the Fashion Auditorium, the viewer is accosted by "Woman '75's" imposing stage which evokes the loud patriotic decor of Brigham's. The blue and white Boston 200 logo wallpapered around portraits of famous women and a starkly geometric waging flag in red and white form the backdrop of the stage. The WBZ program will lecture such dicers acts as the Caravan Theater, mush by Jade and Sasparilla, and an interview with Ms. Dukakis The women's history exhibit suffers under the onslaught of cameramen, glaring TV lights and coached applause. On the first day of the exhibit, "high...
...pick up all litter within two blocks of its outlets. Most chains will agree with community demands to remove their garish outdoor signs or scale down their golden arches and revolving buckets so that, as a McDonald's official says, "we can blend in with the local decor...