Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
...speech and locale that is as welcome as its direct, unsurprised look at life. Author Selvon still has a way to go as a craftsman in fiction, but his native lingo rings true, and the native squalor and insular ignorance have been triple-distilled and mixed with his ink. At the very least, he knows what poor Tiger learned the hard way: "You don't start over things in life; you just have to go on from where you stop...
TIME is now trying to develop overseas sources of paper for the international editions in the countries where the magazine is printed, but few mills outside the U.S. are equipped to manufacture large quantities of paper with a coated surface. Most printing plants. however, purchase their ink locally, and only a relatively small amount is shipped from...
...TIME's original prospectus said: "TIME is interested, not in how much it includes between its covers, but in how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers." And TIME is still interested, not in how much ink it puts on paper, but in rendering the same service to a paper civilization...
Plastic Carpet. At the Chicago Furniture Show, E. T. Barwick Mills displayed the first tufted plastic carpeting. Made of Saran, a Dow Chemical synthetic, the carpet is almost completely resistant to ink and other stains, can be washed to remove dirt, and is more resistant to wear than wool rugs. Cost...