Word: foyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hall during later hours—strange since the latter connects to all entries through the basement. Also, Pfoho restricts universal access during certain hours to only the first of its two main doors. Thus nonresidents who swipe into Pfoho at these times are left sandwiched in a narrow foyer that lacks an emergency telephone...
...Bush, whose own library in College Station, Texas, opened in 1997. "I learned a lot that will come in handy when years ahead we redo our library." Clinton returned the compliment, saying he had gotten "some great ideas from the Bush library, particularly from the design of the foyer," a chamber of light and openness. Their host looked thin and a bit wan to his guests. George H.W. Bush even mentioned his concern to Clinton, who is recovering from heart-bypass surgery. He assured Bush that he was having a normal recovery and would soon...
...pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats. Gianfranco Ferre looked over the horizon to exotic locales like San Salvador de Bahia and the Amazon rain forest for his orchid-covered creations, and included python sandals and zebra-striped dresses. But the loudest buzz of the week was in the foyer of the Hotel Diana, waiting for the Gucci show to get started. As waiters served martinis under a huge orchid-covered chandelier and the honchos from Gucci owner Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, including CEO Serge Weinberg and new Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet, mingled in the crowd, the chatter...
...first White House portrait by a black artist (Simmie Knox), the largest of the modern paintings (at 65 5/8 in. by 53 7/8 in.) and the only picture to include a flag, Clinton's Portrait nudges George H.W. Bush's from the premier spot in the Foyer. Each likeness in the gallery has its lore. A docent's tour...
Hanging prominently in the foyer of Joseph Elliott's home in Summerton, S.C., is a portrait of the Confederate Army general, Robert E. Lee. Nearby, however, Elliott just as proudly displays newspaper clippings of his late great-uncle, a real-life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide...