Word: ornamental
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...Ornament, once equated with tattooing, now reappears in building after building in the form of screens, grilles and even finials. In place of reflected skyline and cloud patterns bouncing back from vast glass slabs, architects are tucking glass back and out of sight, concentrating on giving back to architecture the play of light and shadow. Symbolism and historical evocation are suddenly staging their first comeback in over a quarter of a century...
Political Magic. The fictional town of Belele lies in a huge chunk of northeast Africa. As Novelist Griffin tells it, Mussolini made the region an ornament of empire in the '30s; now the British are trying to get control through a mandate. To the white men who rule the area, native hatred is as much a fact of life as the brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors...
...even carries his own props. "This fellow here," he says, suddenly snatching a green china dinosaur from his briefcase, "is called a triceratops. He had the biggest radiator ornament in prehistoric history. It kept getting bigger and bigger until finally he could no longer hold up his head. He had a wheelbase of nearly 30 feet. The dinosaur perished because...
...Chrismah" (contraction of Christmas and Chanukkah)-a watch-charm ornament combining the cross and the Star of David ("Symbolizes Unity of World's Religion"), advertised as "worn and cherished by people of all faiths . . . royalty, leading government officials, prominent businessmen, also movie, stage and TV stars." Price...
...elected to the Senate, he will be a relatively useless and noisy ornament. He might provide companionship for fellow-maverick Bill Langer of North Dakota, but it will be hard to construe his victory as any resurgence of American reaction. As the candidates go into their final windups, responsible pulse-takers still predict a Watkins win. Such is the course of sanity, but sanity tends to be so dull...