Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tasca's entrance and bar area convey smoky romance with a strong yuppie aesthetic--chrome barstools, elegant rows of glasses suspended from the ceiling, mirrors backing the bottles of alcohol. Wrought-iron chandeliers, hanging wine-racks, ceramic plates, and brass skillets liven the dining room. The cozy booths--far more intimate than the tables in the middle of the room--are covered with brocades of little sailboats and flowers. Sailboats seem to be a prominent decor theme at Tasca, perhaps a reference to the excellent seafood selection. A ubiquitous European-atmosphere-engendering Gypsy Kings album plays in the background...
Elegant Crate & Barrel couches with light canvas slip covers, flanked by wrought-iron floor lamps establish a pristine, catalog-like atmosphere. Behind the sofa, light pours in through the large bay window. On the opposite wall, above the mini-refrigerator, hangs a mounted jackelope head...
...IRON MIKE" TYSON AGE: 31 HEIGHT: 5 ft. 11 1/2 in. WEIGHT: 218 lbs. OCCUPATION: Refs pro wrestling BEST PUNCH: After declaring that he was "taking control of his own affairs, both personal and business," Tyson reportedly slapped and kicked King, though Tyson denies...
...year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines process everything from stock trades to credit-card transactions...
...overcome fall after fall, and the memory of those falls, with the iron will to fly. Kwan skates three 45-min. sessions each day and sets goals for herself at each practice, devoting one session to the combination spin, improving the speed of the whirl and smoothing out the changes in direction, and another session to a jump. Kwan admits that when she has a "bad skate," her coach Frank Carroll will say, "It's O.K." But, she says, "I tell myself, 'You're not getting off the ice.' He knows I torture myself and put myself through all kinds...