Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centuries in the making. It is a land that through most of its history has been overrun and ruled by outsiders, from Egyptian viceroys and Babylonian governors to Ottoman mutessarifs and French commissioners. In ancient times, it was inhabited by the Phoenicians, who took their name from the purple dye they plied around the Mediterranean. Later it became part of that smaller region known as the Holy Land. The cedars of Lebanon were celebrated by the Psalmists, and its mountains provided inspiration for religious mystics...
...India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...
Aside from their purely social function, fraternities also traditionally have been an outlet for excess tension and anxiety. Some people like to call these things pranks but they're really just activities like making tie-dye shirts and ashtrays and wallets when you were a kid at camp. Probably that kid went a little far last year who stood naked in front of the Amherst President's house: the president's wife answered the door. But what's a little toilet paper here and there? At Florida State University last week, one fraternity brother fired a shot into the neck...
...meantime, Grey is looking ahead. She will offer Valentine's Day pet treats in heart-shaped boxes adorned with red ribbons. For the spring, she plans to dye her products with pastel colors to produce Easter baskets of biscuit-eggs...
...symbolic associations, which remain more or less constant through its use in architecture, print, neon, fabric design, packaging, food or painting. Red, for instance, pertains to magic and sorcery, vitality, fire and the conquest of evil spirits. Japanese color is grounded in nature: every indigo or cobalt dye runs, as it were, back to the sea. But the circuit between nature and abstraction is far shorter than in the West. Color has the peremptory quality of calligraphy: a gesture, an unmediated...