Word: paled
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...villa is as dark as a cave, and is an idle mixture of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Chinese and Magyar decorative styles. Plumbing is in the classic French tradition: huge tiled arenas with a tangled network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts at Cannes and Juan-les-Pins and its proximity to the swimming, sunning and water skiing at the Riviera's chic Eden Roc beach...
Today Americans are denied the whoop-dedoo promotion of Barry's Tricopherous, or Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, or Wine of Cardui, or Madame Dean's French Female Pills, or Dr. Dye's Voltaic Belt, or even Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. But the television viewer, morosely staring at an armpit, or watching little hammers beat a brain, or listening to the simulated gurgling of a stomach, knows that the spirit of the medicine man is still around...
...Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told by the Sánchez family themselves in the uninhibited idiom of Mexico's lower depths, which for originality of thought and richness of filth makes American-slum or Skid Row language seem puritanical and pale. But along with the four-letter words are warm passages of glistening simplicity and flights of startling insight. As each Sánchez tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality, the squalor fades into a natural backdrop for the intense drama of five human beings...
...architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author...
...Bell Tolls, El Sordo on the hilltop is waiting to squeeze the trigger on an enemy, but it is the reader who sights along the rifle: "Look. With a red face and blond hair and blue eyes. With no cap and his moustache is yellow. With blue eyes. With pale blue eyes. With pale blue eyes with something wrong with them. With pale blue eyes that don't focus. Close enough. Too close. Yes, Comrade Voyager. Take it, Comrade Voyager...