Word: embellish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made up of many elements?including merchandising, show business and crass exploitation of people's credulity. Department stores across the U.S. are mounting astrological promotions. Woolworth's is pushing a full line of zodiacal highball and cocktail glasses and paper napkins. Bulls, goats, crabs and scorpions are beginning to embellish everything from children's clothes to writing paper; St. Crispin in Manhattan is offering its Park Avenue clientele "astronotes" for invitations. One Manhattan beauty parlor boasts a resident astrologer and twelve special hairdos, one for each sign of the zodiac. A perfume manufacturer is doing well with twelve zodiac scents...
Political Activist. Not quite. There is still a lot of Peterson to be heard when Craig's fingers embellish a tender ballad with filigree tinsel. But there is a lot of Mozart in early Beethoven too, and nobody complains much about that. As a pianist, Craig lacks only the maturity that age will bring. And nobody in the music world doubts his ability to get exactly what he wants...
...nation built on the right to dissent, the I cherishes the qualities of initiative, self-sufficiency and independence that embellish every page of its history. The prevailing political climate has always encouraged the Doer's growth. But even in today's permissive culture, the Doer must discover himself. It is no coincidence that many Doers find their identity in law schools, for an understanding of the law, which binds the citizen and his institutions, is a highly useful civic weapon in calling society to account...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...
...Francisco has long been the U.S.'s gateway to the Orient. There, clipper ships embarked, coolies came to build the transcontinental railroad, and the largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the international Olympic committee and millionaire builder as well, last week opened a new wing containing his collection of Oriental art, which doubles the size of the M. H. de Young Museum...