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...merchant. After she married Sikkim's King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the former Hope Cooke winced at the garish mats that some of the Sikkimese weavers were making with aniline dyes, decided that they must go back to traditional vegetable dyes to give their ancient dragon patterns a softer tint. The King had helped to establish a handicrafts training center in his tiny Himalayan kingdom, and flew to New York with his queen in time to watch the first shipment of rugs go on sale (prices: up to $500). But Sikkim's weavers are still constantly taking time...
...Jersey be considered a great stronghold of political independence. Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson have Jersey voters demonstrated a desire for progressive leadership--and Wilson was at first only the creature of a Democratic machine aiming to regain a superficial tint of honesty...
...rated" antenna) can the viewer hope to find happiness with his color-control knobs. The INTENSITY knob (labeled COLOR on some sets) determines the quantity of color, the richness of the palette, so to speak; its adjustment is a matter of personal taste. It is the other knob, the TINT or HUE, that is crucial-it determines the tone...
...trick is to check it out on flesh col or. If TINT is turned too far in one direction, people on the screen are complexioned a passionate purple; too far the other way, and they turn a gaseous green. When flesh tints are finally adjusted, the viewer will find that other colors are as well. Even the networks calibrate their cameras by zeroing in on so-called "color girls," who stand in with their flesh for 20 minutes before shooting starts...
Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...