Word: pastel
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There are noticeably no women on stage at the start of the operetta and when they do shuffle in, flapping their fans and rustling their pastel kimonos, it is a relief to see them...
...Karen Hale and Alba Quezada are stirring, although occasionally difficult to understand because of the melding of Spanish and English tones. Costume designers Ann Roth and Robert de Mora have created beautifully evocative costumes: magnificent Mexican native dress for Frida, Spanish scarves and shawls for village women and pastel pinks for the stodgy American wives...
Among the traditional candies, however, were several ominous strangers. Someone picked up a round plastic box filled with innocent-looking pastel pellets. "What are these?" he asked. We didn't know. He popped one into his mouth. Ten seconds later, his eyes were teary and he was shrieking obscenities. We laughed at his pain...
...home and bake cookies" comment, she initiated a bake-off with Barbara Bush and had Clinton campaign officials handing out "Hillary's Cookies" at the Democratic Convention. She further altered her image from career woman to domestic helpmate by changing her clothing style from business suits to more "feminine" pastel dresses. Earlier in her career, she used her maiden name instead of taking her husband's, but became "Mrs. Clinton" when her assertion of independence was viewed negatively by his constituents. Mrs. Clinton has spent a long time trying not to let the media turn her anger at women...
What we resembled none of these. Instead, we beheld two clean-cut yuppies in pin-striped suits two introduced themselves as Larry and Steve. They ushered us into the neat, pastel-saturated meeting room and offered us a beverage of our choice. The drinks were on a table set with a tablecloth, doilies and long-stemmed water glasses, the chairs were lined up in neat little rows...