Word: ornamental
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...should be very clear, very straightforward. A chair should say, 'Come and sit here,' and it should fit you in any position you want to sit." Thomas Moser, 47, a onetime college professor who runs a furniture workshop in a former Grange hall in New Gloucester, shuns ornament - the joints in his furniture are the only decorative elements. Moser works mostly in red-hued cherry. He says, "It's stable and tools well. You can sand it to a beautiful polish." Moser never uses stains...
...flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...cause. We should concentrate solely on that. Then attention is automatically diverted from our own personality." The cultural aim of these reductions and renunciations? In four words: to change the world. To a very small extent, the Stijl group succeeded in this, since its theory of design helped banish ornament from all objects of everyday use, egg-cups to architecture...
...been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
...moment of Fran and Jo-Jo's traumatic kiss, if we are to learn two acts afterward that the final break between them came later, when she returned from the date in the wee hours and he raged at her till she hit and wounded him with a brass ornament...