Word: moorish
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...come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
Escher's work was involved with many of the notions current in the more abstract sciences. The obsessive patternmaking, which appeared after he saw the Moorish tilework in the Alhambra during a visit to Spain in 1932, became a visual demonstration of field theory -for there is no "foreground" or "background" in Escher's mosaics. The outline of one figure instantly becomes the boundary of another...
Just two weeks before, yet another Moorish movie palace, Miami's Olympia, had shut down.* Typically, rural theater chains like Oregon's Adamson have reported a 30% drop in volume in the past year. In Portland, where business is also dragging, the "nabes" (the trade term for neighborhood houses) are now closed except on weekends, and some metropolitan theaters, even in New York's Times Square area, will be dark until the beginning of the Christmas season. Across the country, weekly movie admissions have steadily and disastrously declined after reaching a peak of 80 million...
...depicted, tying them together. Pattern delighted him. The way he selected a flower as a motif and set his figures against a whole screen of them, the petals interlocking with reverse shapes of gold leaf, was a master stroke of decorative invention that seems both to look back to Moorish tile work and predict art nouveau...
...lamb as a local entertainer offered animal imitations. "Monsieur le Président, I'm a cock," the man announced, crowing convincingly. "Monsieur le Président, now I'm a dog," he then barked. As the guest sipped Coca-Cola and Evian water, a group of Moorish women serenaded him in Arabic: "De Gaulle entrusted his testament to Georges Pompidou. Welcome." Thus did the 200 guests at a meshwi, an Arab-style barbecue, greet France's President on his arrival in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott last week at the beginning of his ten-day tour...