Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration worked out a deal with Japanese makers to limit imports. But now the picture is darkening again; U.S. Government investigators are probing charges that Japanese manufacturers have been making illegal kickbacks to U.S. importers as a way of getting around federal "antidumping" regulations, and selling color TV sets in the U.S. at bargain-basement prices. Government sources told TIME that one executive of a U.S. importing company has admitted that his firm has received millions of dollars in such kickbacks. John Nevin, chairman of Zenith, the U.S. company whose complaint touched off the investigation about a year...
...been purified and transformed by the dignity of its costumes." The motifs of a robe's design establish the mood, the period and the place of the action. Thus-to a Japanese theatergoer who knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean...
...inform us) to convey the "melancholy, somewhat desolate mood" of "a lonely field at dusk." If this is melancholy, the mood was never more lyrically conveyed. The robe is an anthology of natural observation, with seven types of plants rendered in a marvelously clear, springy line, through gradations of color that result from the separate tinting, part by part, of each of the thousands of silk threads. Where the brown, gray and blue rectangles of the background meet, the threads are aligned slightly out of register, producing a shimmer of one color into another...
...some kimonos, which took a year to tie and another year to unpick, these robes probably consumed more expert human labor than any other garments in history. The weavers might finish six inches of fabric in a week. The planning of the design, with its innumerable shifts of color and texture, must have required a degree of intelligent concentration unequaled in the history of Western weaving. That the robes have survived at all, through the vicissitudes of performance since the 17th century, is a small curatorial miracle; their pristine condition is a larger one. Nothing like them will ever...
...about 21% last year, v. 0.6% for the liquor industry as a whole. Besides its "full-strength" (up to 75 proof) cocktails such as tequila sunrises and mai tais, Heublein is also marketing drinks with less punch (as low as 25 proof) but more in the way of vivid color: the Pink Squirrel, for instance, could be taken for Pepto-Bismol. Schenley is bidding for a share of the premixed market with a new line of twelve drinks-including an apricot sour...