Word: decorators
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
Child of Fortune, played out almost symbolically on two extremely shallow sets, has an almost glaring smallness of orbit and thinness of texture. Playwright Bolton has clearly tried to suggest James's ironies, intensities and cultural decor. But, as they seem all too inadequate for James's story, they seem almost superfluous to Bolton's. Cut to the bone, Child of Fortune lacks nourishment as well as distinction. And Producer Jed Harris, by badly miscasting the two conspirators, lost his last chance to give the play any power...
Less than half the offices were carpeted. In 58%, "unattractive exposed elements" (meaning heating fixtures) are visible. In 72% of the offices, sniffs the report, cramped interiors do not even suggest the "acumen" or "importance" of the executive. Probable reason: in two-thirds of the offices, the decor (or lack of it) was perpetrated by secretaries, wives, friends and "other well-meaning nonprofessionals...
...Kaiser first bought a somewhat rundown hotel next to Waikiki beach. Within four months he had ripped down the hotel, put up in its place 24 hotel bungalows, three swimming pools, a nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink gives you a joyous feeling...
...minimize dull spots, convention machinery will grind faster. Promised Democratic Chairman Paul Butler: "We are planning a brisk, businesslike affair." ¶ The familiar red-white-blue bunting has been discarded in favor of "simple, dignified, and at the same time, traditional" decor, predominantly TV blue...