Word: ornamentalism
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...equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface ornament and a decoratively tapered top. Barring an unlikely reversal at the final vote next month, modernism is about to be outlawed in San Francisco...
Santa's workshop is anything but shipshape: sacks of bell-shaped ornaments cascade from tabletops, plastic buckets leak cartoon-colored chemicals onto the cement floor, and scattered tinsel is everywhere. Ding Hangjuan, a 43-year-old former peasant, kicks through the Yuletide wreckage. Ding set up her ornament factory in an abandoned schoolhouse six years ago to manufacture decorations for Christmas trees in the U.S. This year, Ding's 400 workers labored overtime to supply a brand-new market. "My buyers were once foreigners, but now 10% of what I make stays here in China," she says...
...look like a futuristic tree ornament or one of Ridley Scott's Alien eggs, but it's really a stylish wired mouse by celebrated designer Philippe Starck. microsoft.com/hardware...
...favor of PILOT [Payment In Lieu Of Taxes] and he wants Harvard to take in vastly more money than it does and he wants to give it to his constituency. Without Harvard or MIT, Cambridge basically is Everett or Somerville. It’s a great national ornament and it should be protected...
...fortunate, because there was pretty much nothing but articles in the whole magazine. The scarce glamour shots-most of them as chaste as a church tea party-revealed a total of 19 nipples, of which just three, to my inexpert eye, were erect enough to hold a sunburst ornament safely in place...