Word: ornamentation
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...Soviet Union, women in America have a long legacy as symbols of sex and womanly beauty: Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie O. The list could go on forever. Somehow, though, this ability to be proud of one's appearance and to be an ornament has not been enough for American women. Neither has the weak image women receive as mothers been satisfying. For the purpose of rectifying this situation, we developed feminism to liberate...
Male dancers may be taunted for preferring dancing shoes to football cleats, but a traditional macho image can also plague male dancers. Like the protagonist in "Strictly Ballroom," Shirkey says male dancers often find themselves stuck playing the stereotypical dance floor ornament...
...Harvard student's career, by endowing chairs and reducing section sizes, and second, to the more intangible element of our University experience, by helping to rebuild the tower. Because a Harvard education often begins when a student looks up from studying in one building to muse on the ornament and scale of another. Then, on the brink of the next century, Harvard can boast it has restored, finally and completely, a building from the last century. As Bunting wrote in his 1985 history, "When the tower roof, clock, and cresting have been replaced, Memorial Hall in century-old splendor will...
...speaker was Herman J. Mankiewicz, ornament and outrage of many a dinner table in Bel Air--and also at Hearst's San Simeon, where he was a favorite of Marion Davies, keeping her giggling as they went outside for a swig. A former New Yorker drama critic and a full-time gambler, drinker and wit, Mank was the missing link between Hearst and Welles. Befriending the new kid, he proposed they write a life of a newspaper tycoon...
...William Blake's illustrations from The Song of Los. It comes out as a yearning apotheosis of the Jewish-American princess, in a semitranslucent nightie from some celestial boutique, languidly holding a bouquet and wafted aloft. Above her is the sun, looking like an expensive Christmas ornament. An insect-winged, bifurcated, slender-is flying toward it, helplessly attracted. It is Florine's eager soul, rising to the em pyrean. Bendel's she loved; and next to Bendel...