Word: posher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hooch's painting changed after his move to Amsterdam. He was working for a richer and posher clientele--not that they made him rich. The plain stuff of his interiors gives way to more sumptuous surfaces: marble, Turkish carpets and gilded walls of embossed leather, all of which he painted with virtuosity. The people are dressed to the nines. The idea that De Hooch sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from...
...President-elect journeyed uptown to an all-black neighborhood that is combatting crime as well as recession. That pilgrimage perhaps took the sting off the two nights he spent at glittery parties in posher Georgetown. Clinton's trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday was what an aide to the Governor described as a "love shack." Latent intraparty disagreements over taxes, deficits, auto-fuel standards and a line-item veto were quietly shelved; starved for a leader after 12 years, the Democrats are all singing the same music. For now, anyway, happy days are here again. (See related story on page...