Word: decorating
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Remember when the Yankees replaced combative manager Billy Martin with easygoing Dick Howser? Well, the Father's Six bar is undergoing a similar facelift this fall, as its management hopes to parlay its new name--The Bow and Arrow Pub--and different decor into larger, more peaceful crowds for the establishment...
Ring disagreed with Bornstein on the effect of the renovations. "It's not the decor of the bar room that starts fights; it's the alcohol. When young people get drunk, they can get very nasty...
...cosseting, cuisine and decor at these hotels do not come at Holiday Inn prices. A single room or the most modest double starts around $70 to $100 a night, depending on the hotel; suites can go as high as $400 or, in the case of L'Ermitage, $675. But the premium hotels' rates, which seemed Himalayan before inflation began to loop up in the past few years, are no longer out of line with what the better chains charge: an average of about $75 a night for a single at the Hiltons in New York City...
...That silly paraphernalia costs so much to rent now," M. Greely Summers '42, a member of the Happy Committee, says. "But if we didn't wear it, it would detract from the dignity and decor of the situation...
...river gods, nymphs, Minotaurs and classical heads that fill the Vollard suite and spill over into innumerable drawings and gouaches of the 1930s are not the conventional decor of antiquity. They are more like emblems of autobiography, acts of passionate self-identification. Picasso's Minotaur, now young and self-regarding, fresh as a Narcissus with horns, now bowed under the bison-like weight of his own grizzled head, is Picasso himself. His Mediterranean images are the last appearance, in serious art, of the symbols of that once Arcadian coast...