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Beardsley was decadent and dainty, the epitome of the late-Victorian dandyism that prized artificiality over nature. It is a pity that he never used mauve ink. Oscar Wilde once paid him the compliment of calling him "a monstrous orchid," and Beardsley, relishing his role, jotted on the back of one sketch proof...
...Eastern Airlines announced that after turning a planeload full of red ink into profits last year, it is continuing in the same pattern; for the first quarter of '66, Eastern, under President Floyd Hall, had pretax earnings of $13.8 million, an increase...
...opens in a hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other...
...research to do." He prowled from Carnaby Street to King's Road, slipping in and out of boutiques and coffeehouses, among other places, and summed up the scene in a collage technique that includes, as he put it, "bits of just about everything -acrylics, watercolor, chalk, pen and ink, labels...
...capsules containing one chemical; the copy sheet was coated on the front with another chemical. When the two pieces were inserted in a typewriter or Teletype machine, the force of the keys hitting the top sheet broke the capsules, releasing the chemicals they contained. While the typewriter ribbon supplied ink for letters on the top sheet, the combined chemicals made an inklike copy of the letter on the bottom sheet...