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...first its images were mainly black and white, as they had been almost since the art form arrived from China in the 8th century. By the early 1600s, printmakers had learned how to run a sheet of paper over two identical wood blocks, each one inked in a different color. By the 1740s several blocks were being used for a single picture, and luxurious calendars featuring polychrome prints became popular as New Year's gifts among smart Edo residents. King of the calendar prints was Suzuki Harunobu, whose Beauty Taking the Air by a River (1765-66), of a slender...
...Brogdale's fruits have different characteristics of shape, color, flavor, sweetness, fragrance and size. The apple collection, for example, ranges from the tiny Decio, brought to England by the Romans, to the very ugly Knobby Russet and the huge Howgate Wonder, just one of which could fill three apple pies. The plant center sells around 75 different apple trees, but if you can't find your favorite, Brogdale's experts will grow one especially for you. They can also recommend trees that will happily thrive in a pot on a balcony, provide an orchard design service tailored to soil...
...great humanists of our time...the fact that he’s no longer here seems to me to be an indictment of how the administration has dealt with faculty of color,” Gould said...
Just as fashion and home furnishings follow color trends, so too do perfumes. Or at least that's the way it seems this season with the launch of three new designer fragrances all packaged in pink. Ralph Lauren's new Lauren Style even features pink "juice" inside the bottle. For Dutch design duo Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren's first fragrance, Flowerbomb, the idea is to convey an explosion of flowers. And for Marc Jacobs' second scent, Blush, the name is self- explanatory. Pink isn't the only common message in these bottles--they also all feature floral top notes with...
...ones the opposition French Socialists are fighting tooth and nail in Paris. "Political groups will increasingly act as real European parties," says Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, a researcher at Belgium's Royal Institute for International Relations. "But let's not be too naive. National interests will still outweigh political color on essential issues." Indeed, in a new Time/cnn poll, 70% of those surveyed in Britain, France and Germany said that the incoming Commissioners are more likely to work in the interests of their home countries than in the interests of the E.U. as a whole...