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Word: matissean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below. And diffusing throughout the room, holding the whole tenuously cohesive mess together, there is slinky drum-and-bass music to vegetate...

Author: By Darryl J. Wee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sashay Through Sonsie | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

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