Word: colored
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Stained-glass windows, at first merely a part of decor, soon became an obsession into which Tiffany poured his talent and technical brilliance. He explored luminescence and color in his windows with an intensity that would credit a modern painter. Instead of using lead cames, or frames, at regular intervals, as glassmakers had done for centuries, he incorporated the metal strips into the design, as outlines for trees and riverbanks. His vision was limited by the few kinds of glass commercially available, so he invented and patented his own brand, called Favrile glass. By 1900 he boasted that he could...
...already has the power to crack down on the diet industry through the federal truth-in-advertising and mail-fraud laws. But these weapons have generally been used just against products that are truly outrageous. The Postal Service, for example, took action against diet sunglasses, which supposedly altered food color and made meals appear less appetizing, and a satin headband designed to emit electromagnetic waves that, according to the manufacturer's claims, help customers refuse to eat calorie- laden foods...
Like the International Herald Tribune, that fixture of Continental newsstands, the European will be in English. Unlike its upscale competitor, Maxwell's paper will aim for the mass market, complete with eye-catching four- color photos...
...LIVING COLOR (Fox, Saturdays, 9 p.m. EDT). Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka) created and stars in this weekly satirical revue with a black spin. The impersonations (Arsenio Hall, Mike Tyson) are dead on, the laughs abundant. TV's brightest new spring comedy, by a mile...
...Shoot him!" yelled my copilot, Denny ("Dooley") Jackson, as the enemy tried to break left. But I had him in the 100-mil circle of my gunsight. I squeezed the trigger, and felt the stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson. "Now it's my turn...