Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Beijing is increasingly a city of false facades. Each day picturesque walls made of stucco and tile are erected around deteriorating residential neighborhoods to hide them from visitors who will attend the 1990 Asian Games in the Chinese capital this September. No less deceptive is the charade that is performed each night at major intersections throughout the city. Disguised as policemen, combat-ready army officers man security checkpoints that were allegedly dismantled when martial law was lifted in January. Says a dissident intellectual: "Stability is only an illusion...
Investcorp posted profits of $52 million last year from holdings that include a 50% stake in Gucci, the leather-goods empire, as well as control of Color Tile, the largest U.S. floor-coverings retailer, and Carvel, the ice- cream chain. After taking over Tiffany in a friendly buyout in 1984, Investcorp took the jewelry chain public again within three years and made a profit of $100 million...
...East (the Dynasty restaurant) and something vaguely resembling the old Belgian Congo (the Safari Steakhouse). The decor inside the hotel is a giddy clash between the Forbidden City and Disneyland, in which virtually everything is either pink or purple -- unless it's gold. There are pink acoustic-tile ceilings, pink slot machines, pink Louis XV chairs in the reception area. There is a pink motorcycle parked in the '50s diner called Rock and Rolls, and there are pink chandeliers in Scheherazade, the restaurant overlooking the baccarat pit. (The Scheherazade is conveniently located so that gamblers below can order whatever they...
...most primitive nations. With revenues from oil, first discovered in 1954, the Sultan superimposed the infrastructure of a modern state on Oman's tribal society. In 1985, celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling the end of Oman's virtual isolation from the outside world...
Amid pink construction paper valentines taped to the tile cafeteria wall, the 85 caucus-goers massed around their slate's tables while nomination and referendum petitions circulated through the room...