Word: fuschia
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Harvard Dining Services puts up fuschia neon warnings to students not to eat dining hall food because it contains all the health hazards recounted on its bulletin boards last year. Business at Elsie's and Tommy's Lunch skyrockets when the restaurants start using unsaturated soybean oil on their grills and selling oat bran muffins...
...first exhibit shows a group of three tin washtubs standing one above the other, with water flowing from the top one down to the bottom in waterfall fashion. Plastic lobsters and fuschia rubber fish make their way down the tanks until the children figure out how to pump the water back up to the top tank again...
Some of the kids seemed to enjoy cooperating with each other, one fitting the fuschia head of one fish onto the body of a red one for his sister, but another eight-year-old was more self-absorbed and screamed "gimme that fishing pole!" while swinging another in the air near the waterfall washtubs...
...perfect for costume parties when a saleslady approached. She offered a free makeover, the chance of a lifetime--to transform into a Siren and be able to change back after a thorough scrubbing. With four shades of purple streaked in diagonal lines across my eyelids and with blotches of fuschia on my checks and lips, I resembled the "I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall" T-shirts more than I did the heroine herself...
...pink zebra bikini) is acceptable. Other than that, conservative one piece suits in solid primary colors or simple prints are okay. For men, no Speedos. These belong in Cannes, not in Menemsha. The College-age-and-under crowd get points for the most outrageous Jams available (read: anything with Fuschia as a principal color). Young marrieds go for the white boy scout trunks--they set off any tan you might have acquired and perpetuate the knight in shining armour/LaCoste bathing suit myth. Anyone over the age of thirty should watch it, because cute suits on not-so-cute bodies...