Word: orientale
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Yuppies alone do not account for this vogue. Also nibbling on the botanical wild side are serious connoisseurs and health buffs, who for once agree about food. Introduced to these products either by travel or by the immigrants who first imported them, inventive chefs have placed these ingredients on their...
British and other merchants visited the Netherlands, admired what they saw and took home not only a taste for brick row houses with double-hung windows but such Dutch discoveries as Chinese tea and Oriental carpets. In Georgian England of the following century, the practical was combined with the beautiful...
Amid all the uproar over Harvard's links to exclusive all-male final clubs last year, one elite Harvard institution stood quietly by, unaffected by the campus hoopla. Everyday around noon its male and female members, like their male cousins in adjoining stately homes, took out their keys and entered...
It enraged Kline to hear, as he often did, that these works imitated Oriental calligraphy. The calligrapher's white paper is always neutral, a void, whereas Kline wanted his whites to be seen for what they were--blocks and patches of pigment, as painted as the blacks. Moreover, he disliked...
"You should've seen the students," I told them, describing the pall which hung over the campus after the news of the catastrophe had spread, the manner in which an Oriental girl burst out crying when a picture of Christa McAuliffe flashed on the screen, the lounges filled with teachers...