Word: paisley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," Nov. 18-Jan. 17, 2000: "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties," Nov. 24-April. 30: "View From Above: The Photographs of Bradford Washburn," through Nov. 27: "Drawn to Design," through Nov 28: "Joel Shapiro," through Jan. 13: "Secret Gardens: 'Paisley' Motifs from Kashmir to Europe," through Jan. 17, 2000: "Martin Johnson Heade" through Feb. 2, 2000: "Contemporary Photographs: Other Dimensions" through April 12, 2000; "Ebru: Contemporary Marbling by Feridyn Ozgoren...
What attracts me most, however, about Updike'sprose are his unexpected, marvelously aptcomparison. Under his rhapsodic word processor,pocket handkerchiefs become "paisley orchids,"bathrobed women cheese-filled blinis, faces andbodies, foods of all sorts.Photo Courtesy of Knopf...
Waller's neighbor, Joseph P. Weidle '99, lives in a less shocking but equally impressive version of the libido lair. Again, the bed is the centerpiece of the room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...
While most of the residents are dressed summer casual, their bare legs sticking to plastic chairs assembled on the center's basketball court, Williams is wearing a gray suit, a gray shirt and his trademark bow tie (also gray, though with a few zany paisley figures). "Welcome to forum alfresco," he quips in a typical bit of Ivy League drollery. No one laughs. But Williams is being himself, and the crowd seems to appreciate it. Somehow, in fact, this Yale-talking geek has inspired a city desperate for inspiration...
...Ireland, the voices of war are always eager to be heard. "This is a battle that has to be won ?- no ifs, no buts!" shouted Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley, the chief opponent of April's peace agreement, upon arriving at the standoff site in Portadown, 30 miles outside of Belfast, to huge applause from the Orange Order crowd. Worried Trimble: "This situation has the capacity to destabilize... it could put at risk all the political progress we have achieved." Trimble has the will to make peace. He may now find out whether, as newly elected first minister...