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...ground beans. A hotel has ordered spray cans full of roast-beef aroma to step up banquet-hall trade; an artificial-flower company is spraying its false blooms with essence of the natural thing. Now, sniff this page. Catch that scent of fine coated paper and printer's ink? It's the genuine article...
Nonetheless, the measures have begun to work. Last month Fowler announced "good and encouraging" results: U.S. payments ran a surplus of $132 million in this year's second quarter?its first black ink since...
Into Carolingian manuscripts crept the idea of narrative illustration rather than static devotional icons, the better to teach the word of God. The famous Utrecht Psalter abandoned elaborate gilding to accompany the Gospels with cursive, pen-and-ink cartooning. By the time the Carolingian Renaissance subsided in the late 10th century, art was no longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance...
...electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic octopus that today is drowning in its own ink. To meet rising annual deficits, the government simply has printed more money, has run the foreign debt to an unwieldy $500 million, of which $80 million is already overdue this year. Largely as a result, the once-proud peso in the past five years fell from...
Along the way, the self-portrait developed its own problems. Chagall tried and abandoned nearly a dozen. Finally he achieved what he wanted -a pensive ink-and-crayon study of himself with palette and easel, at a window of his studio, the characteristic colors of his beloved Vence countryside in the background. When Senior Editor Cranston Jones had the cover story and the color pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received...