Team GB has a motto, which has adorned the back of thousands of souvenir shirts at the park and beyond, "Better never stops".
Boys and Girls High, which has adorned the city's basketball tapestry with legendary players like Lenny Wilkens, Connie Hawkins and Pearl Washington, had fallen on hard times, and Mickens was looking for the right person to restore the tradition.
From the corner by Slama's [a clothing shop] we had a direct view of the great paintings which had adorned the walls of the dome and were now for the most part savagely destroyed, what remained of them standing out against the clear blue sky in the light of the afternoon sun.
For more than two years, the giant red, white and black mural by the German-born artist and colorist Josef Albers, which had adorned the lobby of the MetLife Building on Park Avenue since it was completed 40 years ago, has been sitting in storage.
The four antique bronze horses, which had adorned the basilica of San Marco in Venice after the sack of Constantinople in 1204, were brought to Paris to reside atop Napoleon's Arc du Carrousel in Paris in 1797.
This became clear in the way the iconography of the 1795 revolution disappeared: the epigraph Vrijheid, Gelijkheid, Broederschap (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) which had adorned all official publications, was henceforth removed, and the last Liberty Trees were removed from the town squares.
The modern club's crest is derived from the Harrow School crest, which may have adorned the shirts of the original team.
This willingness to include his own profession among the targets of ire was one of Fairlie's trademarks, and his many quarrels with employers and editors were the source for the only half-joking title of this book (which might, had he lived, have adorned his memoirs).
He has lived 33 years in the former home of a Greek Cypriot, which he has adorned with lemon trees.
"I've always tried to pick roles — big roles, very small roles — where the characters have an edgy view of the world, are full of life, give off a so-crazy-I-can't-believe-it vibe," Mr. DeVito said as he leaned back in an easy chair in his dressing room, which he has adorned with posters of Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley.
