Word: decorousness
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...words, be "a pleasant, exclusive circle of 2,000." Grumbles one member: "It's getting more exclusive with every thousand." Though the entrance is marked Members Only, Heinz Weigt confesses: "The manager has instructions to let in attractive nonmembers." As a result, the club's decor consists partly of aspiring starlets in hopes of catching a producer's eye with their daring decolletages. The open-Dior policy reached such extremes at a recent jump-for-joy contest at the club that one ample young actress leaped clear out of her sheath. The members cheered...
...Then out to the floor, where 24, 48 or 60 shiny, electronically controlled alleys are laid out for them. Thanks to the invention of the automatic pin setters, there no longer are elderly winos or jaded kids back in the well, muttering as they set up the pins. The decor is bright and comfortable, a sharp contrast to the smoky atmosphere that once made bowling nearly as disreputable as pocket billiards. Reflecting the new tone, alleys have become "lanes.'' and even the gutters that line the alleys are now "channels...
...behind a newly constructed, six-foot cedar fence, the President's eleven-room, five-bathroom summer White House reflects the tastes of Jackie Kennedy. Yellow. Jackie's favorite color, dominates the decor. The walls are light and are hung with seascape paintings, including a few of Jackie's own, and one determined primitive by the President himself, showing the Riviera port of Villefranche...
...couldn't get much farther away from himself than Pal's lost Atlantis. The dress and decor are a sumptuous mishmash of Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar...
Despite all the soft comforts, one customer has found dangers: strolling past the taupe-gold-champagne Rotunda Reception Hall toward the Pompeiian Plaza, she became so enthralled by the decor that she tumbled smack into the Pompeiian pool. Fortunately, she had not yet changed into her Pompeiian gown and Pompeiian slippers. But she got antisepticized anyway...