Word: ornament
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...Andrew Berry peruses the eclectic collection of artifacts that ornament his home, his eyes come to rest on a display of ceramic vegetation hanging on his kitchen wall. “Now this is bizarre,” he says. The observation can be applied to any number of the rare finds found throughout his home, a collection animated by an exotic, if unusual, aesthetic that uniquely reflects Berry and his family’s passions...
...night in Hong Kong in November 2003, American expat Nancy Kissel smashed her husband's skull with a heavy lead ornament. Four days later, police discovered his rotting corpse, wrapped in a carpet in the basement storeroom of the luxury apartment complex where the couple lived. An autopsy found a cocktail of sedatives in his stomach and liver. The 39-year-old mother of three was accused of giving her husband a sedative-laced milk shake before clubbing him to death, and in 2005, Kissel was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life. In her first appeal, which...
They would also struggle to accommodate it to the appetites of postwar America, an abundant, full-of-itself nation. The country's corporate and institutional lites were open to the idea of seeing their power expressed in a contemporary idiom, with none of the grand and intricate ornament of earlier generations. Yet the bare-bones Modernism that came of age in Europe between the wars was not quite what they were looking...