LIVING 12
OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Party-goers LOOSE LEAF
and Jewish ALEX FRASER
women Eight year itch
favour Palin
Believing in zeitgeist, we seeking the next saleable fash-
can’t, I suppose, claim to ion, has shown our prescience.
have been the cause of the What disturbs is the duplic-
return to loose leaf teas in the ity in information given to the
UK but we feel that we were consumer. The designer labels,
seminal and led the revolu- celebrity brand and misin-
style hair
tion. Obviously the degener- formation (see Loose Leaf
ation to the (almost) ubiqui- 11). One of my gripes is with
tous bag wasn’t 100 per cent generic teas, eg. “Green Tea”. A
but there were few enough perfectly good description but
homes without them and few stultifyingly insufficient. Fre-
enough shops with nothing quently I am asked for “Green
but, when we set up eight Tea” by people who claim to
years ago, beginning retail like “Green Tea” but have no
trading in the first weekend further means of identifying
NEW YORK (Reuters) – With ka, where Jews make up less of December 2000. Over the it other than “I get it from the
its straight fringe, beehive than one per cent of the state's years we have extended and supermarket."
and cascading curls repub- 670,000 population, Rosenz- refined our range until I am Also depressing are the
lican presidential candidate weig said her clients “like her almost unable to display all attempts to grow varietals
Sarah Palin's hair, is proving classic look. It can be worn up the teas at Borough. It has away from terroir and cultural
popular among Halloween or down." been wonderful to be able to processing and expecting
revellers and Orthodox Jew- Shlomo Klein, an Ortho- maintain our prices through- identical results. Himalayan
ish women. dox Jew and vice president of out this time although recent oolongs can be very nice, Sri
New Yorkers are snapping wig maker Georgie Wigs, said damage to the value of the Lankan white teas can look
up Palin-style wigs and glass- he sold more than 50 of the pound may change that. very beautiful, but they, and
es regardless of their political “Sarah P" wigs across Amer- Another significant point, my particular Bête Noire,
leanings, costume shop own- ica in recent weeks to women of course, is that we pioneered Chinese Sencha, are different
ers say. wanting wigs either for medi- serious interest in precolo- and, in relation to traditional
And in an Orthodox Jewish cal or religious reasons. nial teas: teas from countries parameters of evaluation, not
neighborhood in Brooklyn, Married Orthodox Jewish whose tea cultures extend up to scratch.
the look has become popular women do not show their real back for centuries. Alex runs East Teas in Bor-
among some Orthodox Jew- hair in public for modesty rea- These days the prolifera- ough Market on Fridays and
ish women, who buy wigs to sons and can spend between a tion of new tea companies and Saturdays. Email epoch@
cover their hair for religious few hundred to several thou- larger, established companies eastteas.com.
reasons. Made of human hair, sand dollars on wigs, he said.
the Palin-style wigs cost $695 The Palin look had replaced
or more. previous popular looks among
Hot cup of love
In Brooklyn's Borough Orthodox Jewish women such
Park, an area heavily popu- as Victoria Beckham's “Posh
lated by Hasidic men wearing Spice" look and Jennifer Anis-
black hats and long beards and ton's Friends cut, he said.
women dressed in long skirts Esther Melamed said she
and long-sleeved shirts, stylist paid more than $700 for the
Gail Rosenzweig said half of human hair Palin wig to wear
her Orthodox Jewish clients for a recent Jewish holiday.
want Palin's style.
“It's a fashion statement,"
“I have some old wigs that
I can wear, but I wanted a cer-
Holding a warm coffee can nurture
said Rosenzweig as she worked
on a Palin wig. Even though
tain look and I really like that
look," she said, adding she
one’s compassionate spirit
Palin is a Christian from Alas- intends to vote for Palin.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Strange
that it may seem, simply
clutching a warm cup of cof-
fee can bring on a flood of
warm feelings, researchers
said on Thursday in a finding
that suggests a strong link
between physical and emo- “Physical warmth
tional warmth.
“Physical warmth can can make us see
make us see others as warmer
people, but also cause us to be others as warmer
warmer – more generous and
trusting – as well," said John people”
Bargh, a professor of psy-
chology at Yale University in
Connecticut, whose research
appears in the journal Science.
A Jewish woman shops for synthetic wigs in central Israel JUST A PRETTY FACE? Palin’s half-up, half-down style is proving to be a popular choice with women stateside Bargh and another col- who held the frozen pack
league at the University ran tended to keep the gift.
a series of experiments to “These very subtle and rel-
test the ties between physical atively simple cues are capa-
temperature and emotional ble of having a meaningful
Sleep well this Halloween
Reluctant groom sets warmth.
They asked people to brief-
ly hold a hot or iced coffee.
impact on people's behaviour,"
Williams said in a telephone
interview.
hotel on fire in Japan Then they were given a dossier
of information about another
He said imaging studies
suggest temperature informa-
person and asked to assess his tion – both physical and inter-
or her personality traits. personal – are processed in a
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese Yomiuri quoted him as telling Those who had held the region of the brain known as
man set fire to the hotel where police. warm cup of coffee were far the insular cortex.
PARAMOUNT he was due to get married at Guests at the hotel were more likely to assign "warmth" And he said these associa-
JOANNA CONWAY the weekend, rather than go evacuated and no one was as a personality trait than those tions are likely formed in early
EPOCH TIMES UK STAFF through with the ceremony injured when he set the fire who held the icy beverage. childhood, noting that when
later the same day, newspaper in the early hours of Sunday In the second study, volun- an infant learns about love
reports said Monday. morning at the resort hotel in teers held ice packs or thera- and physical closeness it typi-
Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had Yamanashi Prefecture, west peutic heating pads as part of cally happens while snuggling
Nine haunted hotels this Hal- gone along with wedding of Tokyo. a product evaluation study. up to a parent's warm body.
loween entice thrill seekers plans despite already having Kawata and his fiancee had Then they were told they could “Taking a warm bath.
with tales of murder, suicide a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper been set to get married before receive a gift certificate for a Drinking a cup of tea or coffee.
and untimely deaths. said. 80 guests. He was arrested friend or a gift for themselves. Chicken soup. It's not haphaz-
“I thought if I set a fire I after suddenly cancelling the Those who had held the hot ard that we have a preference
Hotel Del Coronado, San wouldn't have to go through event and behaving suspi- pad were more likely to ask for for these types of experienc-
with the wedding," the ciously, the Yomiuri said. the gift certificate, while those es," he said.
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