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...centuries, the nomadic Masai tribesmen have loped like lions across their vast grazing plains near Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing nothing much more confining than a breechcloth of calico. Even in recent years, the Masai have continued to carry spears, smear their bodies with a red ocher pigment, hang weighty baubles in their pendulous ear lobes and quaff their favorite brew of clotted steer's blood, curdled milk and cow urine. Now Tanzanian President Ju lius Nyerere has decided that it is time for the Masai to pick up some civilized habits. In a policy designed to stamp out "ancient, unhealthy...
...Calico Folklore. Quilling's great era in America ran from 1750 to 1870, when the Industrial Revolution put an end to the need for home manufacture. The Hanoverian kings of England had placed strict embargoes and taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta, in the colonies. So women hoarded snippets and swatches left over from dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit...
Sunday, November 15 DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). The mysteries of heredity are explored, showing how chromosomes and genes combine to make some blossoms crimson, some cats calico, and each of us what...
...part in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. She got it, and everything has swum since then. She is out of the cold-water flat and into a five-room place on the-upper West Side, which she shares with a couple of dogs and a calico...
Some Sterile Cats. Building upon Miss Lyon's theory, other researchers have explained a mystery about calico cats. In theory, such a cat has to be a female because its black and orange patches must result from two different X chromosomes. What seemed to be male calico cats have turned out, on study of their cells, to have two X chromosomes as well as a Y. They are an intersex form, and they are sterile...