Word: ornament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barbed wire," according to the company, for the hand-sewn upholstery. Or the Lombard walnut selected in Milan each year by Rolls experts to assure that each dashboard's unique pattern can be repaired from the same slice of the same tree. Or the famed flying-lady hood ornament, officially "the Spirit of Ecstasy," made by a 4,000-year-old Chinese casting method that produces a faithful replica; hand sanding then leaves each one slightly different...
...obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...mass-produced; each piece of tubing must be heated and then bent by hand. There are only a few hundred neon artisans left in the country, and their average age is 50. Now, however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon to ornament postmodern designs, especially by tracing structural shapes and highlighting details. Slender ribs of blue neon provide elegant illumination for the walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon for elevator indicator lights, recessed into the walls...
...mimes nor 6-ft.-tall strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from...
...customers who stir excitedly in anticipation of their favorite part of the show, his seventh-inning sing-along. Outfielder Gary Matthews can verify that the Cubs' appeal extends at least to Belize, a Central American country of 150,000, which receives the cable and recently requested a live float ornament for its Cub Mardi Gras. "Only the Pope drew better," Matthews returned to report grandly...