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Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.
With Return to Paradise , both men have shed their commercial ornamentation and gone back to their tabloid roots, aiming for stripped-down emotional trajectories and back-against-the-wall dilemmas.
Maybe that explains Susan Faludi's enigmatic visage on the cover of Newsweek --participating in the ornamentation thing, but knowing better.
The Qing continued these artistic traditions, adding increasingly rich and dense ornamentation and applying new colors, many of them clashing or gaudy.
Faludi sets out to discover why men are so resistant to women's advancement but ends up with a sympathetic portrait of the sorry state of American manhood, faulting the culture of "ornamentation" and the economy's removal of men from meaningful jobs.
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