Word: decorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
...masters moved into the Japanese house, the old masters tried busily to reshuffle the furniture and the decor. General Douglas MacArthur and the United Nations might have other plans, but for the moment, at least, the rulers of the late Great Japan made a show of being men who expect to manage their own affairs...
...picture's decor is not just the usual glossy set of illustrations, it is lively and eager in movie terms. Hollywood's streets, outskirts, diners and small bars, with which the picture is liberally sprinkled, give it the special vitality of actual time and place. And the film is capable of poetry as well as naturalism. (Sample: a subtle slowing of motion to heighten the sinister mood of a scene in which the neurotic writer, in order to torture his wife, tosses poisoned food to some flying gulls...
...Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...
...Show. Fridolin works out everything in his three-hour-long revues, down to the dancing and the decor. His method never varies: each summer he plows through newspapers and magazines for topical material; each fall he locks himself in to write; each winter his revue runs for two or three months in Montreal and Quebec. The revues now fetch some 130,000 customers - in Montreal ten times the audience of any other show. They cost him a reputed $75,000 to produce, net him around $50,000 profit - and shut down the minute the house falls below 90% of capacity...