Word: decorously
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hotel-lobby decor is not too much of a turn-off, you can find some good buys among Barillari's huge paperback selection. But the store lacks the personal touch of some of the Square's smaller shops, and you are likely to leave feeling underdressed and not the least bit thirsty for espresso...
Around the block is Temptations, which opened last year on the site of the old Haagen-Dazs. Temptations has more offbeat flavors than Licks does, but its mall decor is slightly unsettling. Temptations also weighs your yogurt portion, lest they give you that extra tenth of an ounce. Personally, we feel violated when someone weighs our yogurt...
Stained-glass windows, at first merely a part of decor, soon became an obsession into which Tiffany poured his talent and technical brilliance. He explored luminescence and color in his windows with an intensity that would credit a modern painter. Instead of using lead cames, or frames, at regular intervals, as glassmakers had done for centuries, he incorporated the metal strips into the design, as outlines for trees and riverbanks. His vision was limited by the few kinds of glass commercially available, so he invented and patented his own brand, called Favrile glass. By 1900 he boasted that he could...
...17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass plate on the bar marks his presence, and his face ornaments the menu, which includes a rumsteak au poivre Hemingway...
...place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section of the Dome has been turned into a really excellent fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor and atmosphere. The baked turbot is superb, and the Macon makes it even better. But if the sausage is only a memory, so is the old price: dinner for two costs...