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...designer's best bold stroke was to hollow out the Royalton's long, block-through, columned lobby and bring it alive. People sit here and talk nonsense to one another, order tea -- a liquor license is still to come -- wait for somebody to tilt a chair back, argue about what Starck did right and wrong. (Right: a bar, made of dark marble, with a lovely, sinuous stainless-steel footrest, and a thin strip of glowing blue glass set into the top. Wrong: tacky purple ropes with tassels, holding up enormous mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

TANYA Selvaratnam as Medea goes full throttle with the mental illness aspect of her character. From the very beginning of the play, Selvaratnam portrays Medea as having lost it full tilt. Thus, you lose sight of the rational motivations that her character might possess...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

Currently there is a sharp tilt to Social Security benefits, with lower-income workers getting a far heftier return on their payroll taxes than middle-and upper-income workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sources: Darman to Be Budget Director | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...high bench set for a tilt to the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...Park Street station, I realized that Iactually felt nervous and a little scared. Therewas a kiosk with an aerial photo-map of Boston;looking down from the air into the buildings andstreets made my stomach rise and tilt, like I wasin an elevator that had just lurched 50 stories. Ididn't want to go upstairs and face job hunting; Iwandered around looking for a musician, feelingvaguely sorry for myself. It was amazing how justimagining that I had no job depressed me; twocheerful Deadheads playing "Jailhouse Rock"finally got me upstairs...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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