Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors is as handsome-and as lifeless-as model rooms in department stores...
...going to take the a la mode approach." That approach is sure to prove attractive to more than the United Auto Workers: at week's end six unions set a this-week strike deadline against most of the nation's railroads...
...General Electric, for example, architects turned a huge dome inside out, revealing its supporting lining of intersticed steel so that its overall look suggests tripes à la mode de G.E. IBM, in a glorious defiance of sanity, has set what appears to be a 50-ton egg on a nest of plastic in the tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that...
Room for Evasion. The decisions left plenty of room for more segregationist evasion. In Atlanta, school officials were relieved that the court had not directly outlawed their mode of gradualism. Said Superintendent of Schools John Letson: "I think that the district court will review what the board of education has done, and see that it has done it in good faith...
Tough Ideas. Ferré has such melodic facility that his songs can drift from one mode to another without the slightest misstep: a melody will slip into passages that suggest fado or flamenco or Orthodox church music, then emerge again for a major-key resolution. Ferré has written some lovely love songs, but most of his ideas are tough, and he does not mince words-as in Monsieur Tout-Blanc, his pre-Deputy attack on the Pope...