Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coupeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk about the "beneficent radiation" of his color, of its power to heal, and he would prop up his paintings, like sun lamps, around the bed of a sick friend. In the National Gallery, in the sublime, undulating leaf patterns in green, blue and yellow that Matisse designed for the stained-glass windows of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, this radiation is almost enough to give the viewer...
When readers leaf through TIME this week they may be startled to see a number of changes in our appearance - this page included. The new format offers different section heads, a new type face for headlines, hairline rules to set off columns of type. Another innovation: secondary headlines to announce more quickly what stories are about...
COCAINE. Though exact figures are hard to pin down, more and more people apparently are getting a kick out of this extract of the South American coca leaf. Long known as the "society high." cocaine is now being used by everyone from affluent suburbanites to drug-savvy ghetto kids. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that almost 8 million Americans have tried cocaine at least once, usually by sniffing it in a powdery form ("snorting"). Cocaine's proponents, who included Freud, swear by the drug, insisting that it produces a sense of euphoria, increases sexual sensations, reduces fatigue...
Djiboutians consoled themselves, as always, by chewing on kat (pronounced, roughly, cot), a mild narcotic leaf imported by air-because it loses its kick 72 hours after picking-from Ethiopia at the staggering rate of seven tons a day. A cheekful of kat, they say, provides something of a high, makes them care less about heat and hunger, gives a general feeling of happiness, and enhances sexual potency. A local post office clerk, assessing the future with what appears to be typical lack of concern, shifts his chaw to the other cheek and says. "If things go bad, we will...
...spectacular rise was that of Norin, a Florida insurance and real estate company, which rocketed out of nowhere to No. 324 on a 1,928% increase in its sales, to $586 million. Though Norin made some gains in its basic business, it got its biggest lift by acquiring Maple Leaf Mills, one of Canada's largest food and grain processors...