Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betamax a replay of her first triumph unwinds in glorious technicolor. The camera zooms in on pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
...Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants. But in many ways she is like a whole new breed of Miss America aspirants, far from a beauty-queen type. Tall and girl-next-door pretty, she is a pale brunette who in no way resembles the blonde, golden-bronzed California beauties of imagination. Says a friend: "She'd look ridiculous beside a surfboard." She hates makeup and the whole virginal cult of the body beautiful that underlies Miss America...
...papers for their bosses. By week's end Carter had received two black loose-leaf notebooks from his team of experts. They outlined, among other things, what would be "acceptable minimum" and "practical maximum" results on a wide range of problems. Begin's staff, meanwhile, had given him a pale blue folder titled "Possibilities and Recommendations," containing 70 pages of charts, documents and official statements on the Arab-Israeli conflict. And Sadat had been handed a sheaf of working papers drafted by his own special task force. The participants, moreover, are hardly strangers. Sadat and Begin have conferred twice; Carter...
...When they start rolling down the length of a 60-acre section, it seems as if they will just keep right on going. Never stopping. Never turning aside. A 24-ft.-wide reel spins languidly in front of each combine, like a big lawnmower in slow motion, nudging the pale stalks of wheat gently into the path of unseen cutting blades...
...always. Some of the new movies have been big budget disappointments, notably Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Despite massive promotion, Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, and a soundtrack album geared to bring in the kids, this pale attempt to dramatize an old Beatles album is a lame entry. During the first six days of August, one 1,500-seat theater in New York City sold less than 15% of the house at the average showing. I Wanna Hold Your Hand, another Beatles-inspired movie, got a clammy reception three months ago. Notes MCA President Sid Sheinberg...