Word: draping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they rest -- these were the signs of a world crammed with pictorial events, all common yet all august and tending to equivalent value...
...Justices open up college tenure files, drape protections around adult bookstores, slap the wrist of a trial judge and give criminal defendants a small break...