Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
...commuters can stare at some of the handsomest scenery in the world-the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito's tiny houses clinging like mussels to the surrounding green-brown hills, deserted Alcatraz with wildflowers growing on its rocky sides, and the San Francisco hills covered with white and pastel buildings. In the evenings, passengers see the same splendors in a different light, their perceptions sharpened by tasty 750 martinis, fine Scotch or champagne...
...bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls-but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales-of birds, foxes, fish and mice-caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only one lady author of children's literature: Mother Goose...
...dazzling choreographic sequence of episodes that sometimes deliberately echo each other, but never quite repeat. There is no story line, only a progression from simplicity to sumptuousness, from youth to maturity. In the early variations, which have about them an air of soft, bucolic wonderment, the dancers appear in pastel-shaded practice clothes. In the final scenes, which call upon the full resources of the huge cast (49 in all), they are resplendent in Baroque dress...
...their nightly bacchanalia. "They haven't had time to set themselves up all the way. They're just not ready to give their money away." No, argued the more daring of us, those who hadn't combed their hair or who had left the top two buttons of pastel-colored shirts unbuttoned. "The alumni hate us. They think we're a bunch of communists...