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Tucked away on the fourth floor of 20 DeWolfe, a suite decorated in a Far Eastern motif brings cosmopolitan flavor to the relatively new apartment complex. Antique wooden furnishings add a lot to the room, as ornately carved chests line one side. A mauve and gold colored brocade ottoman sits on the oriental rug. The cane and glass coffee table offers a ceramic bowl simply placed in the center. In one corner of the room hangs an authentic, carved ceremonial mask from Mali used in coming of age ceremonies. A red and gold Chinese kite decorates another corner...
...villains will flee in fear. Yet Wildhorn's music has enough muscle and melody to lift the material and the spirits. He can get our blood flowing with a rousing fight song (Into the Fire in Pimpernel) or brighten a brittle critique of social mores with an infectious melodic motif (Facade in Jekyll). Even when his ballads bog down in gooey lyrics (by Leslie Bricusse in Jekyll; Nan Knighton in Pimpernel), the simple but affecting tunes can stick with you. And if they get played on the radio, why not? "There are times when the emotions transcend the moment...
...painting always had an organic basis. Sometimes he called it extraction rather than abstraction. He described the process to a friend in 1913: "The first step was to choose from nature a motif in color, and with that motif to paint from nature, the form still being objective. The second step was to apply this same principle to form, the actual dependence on the object... disappearing, and the means of expression becoming purely subjective. After working for some time in this way, I no longer observed in the old way, and...began...to remember certain sensations purely through their form...
...keeping with the Halloween theme, the party in Adams A-17 revolved around a "hell" motif while the party in room A-41 was dubbed "heaven...
...group played "Brown Sugar," one of their most beloved singles, the air filled with gigantic geysers of confetti, which completely blanketed the stadium. Throughout all of this, the simple, pure rock and roll that is the Rolling Stones never seemed to be at odds with the lavishly flamboyant motif of the concert. It all worked. It all provided plenty of satisfaction