Word: frillier
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...postmodern impulse of the 1970s was fundamentally a movement away from , the cerebral and toward the sensual. Today, although interest in the frillier postmodern forms is waning, many architects and designers are taking a further leap in the same direction. They are concerned less with issues of style and more with exploring the character and connotations of building materials -- the nuances of woods and stone and plaster and metals and plastics and finishes. The best designs of 1986 in almost every instance exemplify the new materialism...
Along with feeding Actress Walker her lines, Margaret Phillips plays the other wife in the frillier style of high comedy. But Actress Walker contrives higher comedy: no mere grande dame, she is someone who could make a grande dame cower...
...women, from bobby-soxers to grandmothers. They basked happily as his performances washed over them: folk songs, show tunes and his own arrangements of such classics as Debussy's Clair de Lime and Grieg's Concerto, most of which he played with artfully simplified fingerwork in the frillier runs. For a topper, he opened up his laryngitic baritone in a perennial favorite of the middleaged, September Song. When it was all over, he dangled his feet over a corner of the stage, signed his pictures, shook hands and accepted embraces from some of the more grandmotherly...
...Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed (TIME, March 10), the U. S. hoped to make every...
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