Word: decorousness
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Borrowing the concept of the classic American drugstore the French transmogrified it into a near-erotic experience. Over the past dozen years, several versions of Le Drugstore have appeared in Paris: multimedia bazaars featuring bizarre decor, intimate bars, lavish food and smart boutiques. The phenomenon bore only a dreamlike resemblance to the drug supermarkets of, say, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now, by way of cultural reexport, not to say retaliation, the metamorphosed drugstore has returned...
While U.S. hotelmen build almost entirely for the luxury market abroad, they place less emphasis on ornate decor than on such modern conveniences as escalators and automatic elevators, TV sets in rooms and ice-cube machines in corridors. Construction costs overseas- $30,000 to $40,000 per room -are as high as in many U.S. cities, and few new U.S. hotels abroad match the grand luxe service of the best of the older foreign-owned hotels. But traveling Americans like U.S.-style hotels for their informality, speedy checkin, reliable phone service and fast meals. Europeans, who have been accustomed...
...Decor was not neglected at the Sheraton-Chicago hotel, however. Each day's session had a color theme−pink for Tuesday, for example, with pink cloth tote bags emblazoned with red cardinals presented as favors. At one luncheon, the delegates sighed over a new strain of gladiolus christened the "Osa Mae Gladiolus," in honor of National Council President Mrs. Osa Mae Barton...
...viewer this year, the ceremony was something like a banquet in a Howard Johnson's. The decor was pleasant, the food we were served, rather tasteless. Bob Hope, "America's Ambassador of Laughter," was there, with his own bland brand of social satire. "It's such a novelty seeing actors and actresses with their clothes on" and "Up until a few months ago, I thought that The Sterile Cuckoo was the story of Tiny Tim" were two of his more biting lines...
...director as well as a writer, Krumbachova concentrates on the details of psychological games as realized in decor and frame composition. She writes small scenarios, small in the sense that their limited worlds are closed off from the usual psychosocial references: small also in that they act out philosophical truths through seemingly banal confrontations. The Report is on a small group of guests who have been invited to a birthday party in honor of some mysterious official. On the way they are captured by the official's adopted son, Philip, and his boys, who force them to play commandante/captive games...