Ticket prices remain the same and are still sold as first class, and the restaurant service remains although tablecloths and antimacassars have been removed to promote a more work-like environment.
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From the Bogata home with its shawl-draped table and chairs with matching antimacassars to a lavish contemporary with vaulted ceilings and deep leather sofas, Colombian lifestyles featured are rich and varied.
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The patterned brown sofa and armchair with the white linen antimacassars are where Paul McCartney and John Lennon, bending over their guitars and scribbling in a school notebook, wrote their first songs.
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Perhaps you had a great-aunt Minnie whom you visited briefly every other year, and all you can remember about her are the lace doilies, or antimacassars, on her overstuffed chairs.
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This local specialty is made and sold by dozens of women in an alley dedicated to their craft : It's doily and antimacassar central, just the thing if you have a Victorian house.
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In news reports, to call a woman " grandmotherly " is shorthand for " kindly, frail, harmless, keeper of the family antimacassars, and operationally past tense ."
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An "'antimacassar "'is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric.
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"Just as you can't picture Philip Johnson using a doily in the glass house, " he says, " there won't be any antimacassars on Coupland . com ."
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Her gift for words and the cultural predicament of her time drove her to poetry instead of antimacassars . . . She came . . . at the right time for one kind of poetry : the poetry of sophisticated, eccentric vision ."
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Of Elgar's music he wrote, " it reflects the complacency and stodginess of the era of the antimacassar and pork-pie bonnets; it is affected by the poor taste and the swollen orchestral manner of the post-romantics ".
