Word: pastel
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...Identity is important to Malkani, even though it never led him to a life of gang violence and pastel-hued luxury cars. "One of the things people always ask me is whether I was a rudeboy," he says during a lunchtime lull at London's Financial Times, which is letting him work part-time at his job editing business feature stories while he promotes the book. (A U.S. tour is scheduled for the summer.) "Not at all. At school I was a swot, into books." But Malkani did grow up firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother...
...entered her area code at whitepages.com and was immediately barraged with pop-up ads for businesses in the Chicago area—problem solved. She also didn’t post her high school, but after inspecting her photo albums, I had a good sense. The high frequency of pastel Polo shirts, ribbon belts, and guys with “popped” collars clearly indicated that, despite hailing from Illinois, she had attended a New England prep school. Her profile also listed her AIM screen name, which I quickly added to my Buddy List under...
Perhaps the parade of pastel bottles just beyond the cosmetics aisle is inevitable--at least in states like California, where wine may be sold beside grocery items. For while men continue to do the bulk of the nation's beer and hard-liquor buying, new surveys by Gallup and by Adams Media confirm that women make 55% of U.S. wine purchases. With that information in hand, wine marketers, after decades of ignoring women, are suddenly chasing them like dogs after a bone. "I just wish they wouldn't resort to stereotyping and patronizing us in the process," complains Mary Ewing...
...rejection of Sunday's election in Belarus, which was judged by European monitors to be fraudulent, may also be taken in Moscow as a reminder of what it perceives as Washington's effort to reverse Russian influence in former Soviet territories. The "pastel" revolutions of recent years in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere have fed a sense that the U.S. is pushing its own influence into Moscow's traditional sphere of influence by supporting democratic rebellions against pro-Russian strongmen such as Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russia has pushed back by pressuring allies in Central Asia to distance themselves from...
...show also includes a small collection of pastel works, most notably several important pieces by James Whistler...