Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes the only way to tell one cosmetic from the other is by the price tag. Competing products use many of the same ingredients, and what the customer buys is often the mystique and the prestige, as well as color or scent. Lipsticks are basically made of waxes, oils, fragrance and color, although 31 ingredients go into Revlon's Raspberry and only 23 into Maybelline's Toasted Brick. Perfumes are costly in part because of small quantities of exceptionally expensive natural oils. Among some of the exceptionally prized, the prices per lb. run: jasmine $4,091, oeillette...
...emollients. These relieve dryness and protect the skin by softening, conditioning and lubricating it. Triethanolamine, stearic acid, glyceryl stearate, magnesium aluminum silicate and PEG-75 lanolin oil are emulsifiers that enable the other ingredients to mix and form a smooth lotion. Three of the ingredients are pigments, which give color to the skin when the cream goes on. They are titanium dioxide, iron oxides and talc. There are also three preservatives to lengthen the shelf life of the cream: methylparaben, imidazolidinyl urea and propylparaben. In fact, the most expensive ingredient is propylparaben, which sells for about...
...antique rugs have risen as much as 1000% during the past seven years, especially at auctions where oil-rich Middle Easterners are eagerly buying back the treasures of their heritage. The Splendor of Persian Carpets by E. Gans-Ruedin (Rizzoli; 566 pages; $85) shows off some spectacular examples whose color values are faithfully reproduced in more than 100 full-page illustrations. The most magnificent carpets are from the 16th century and, not surprisingly, can be found in Tehran's Carpet Museum. The text is in English and Farsi, the language of Iran, but words can not compete with...
...Audubon Society Book of Wildflowers by Les Line and W.H. Hodge (Abrams; 260 pages; $37.50). Audubon Magazine Editor Line has made an art form of nature photography in color. With Walter Henricks Hodge he has produced pages of California poppies (Eschscholtzia) that seem to burst into orange flame. Line has selected 181 photos (modestly including only two of his own but eleven of Hodge's), showing in many-hued detail the strange life of epiphytes like those that amazed Columbus, and the infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text...
...dominant color is black, with soldiers in leather, plebs in street clothes, patricians in velvet ankle-length robes. The stage is blocked out like those tunnel run ways through which cattle are prodded to slaughter. Terry Hands' hot-spirited direction makes 3½ hours pass like one, a daunting feat well worth emulation by directors who dawdle over the Bard till he turns tepid...