Word: pastel
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...uninitiated, Victoria's Secret stores are a Harlequin Romance come to life. Pastel colors, peach perfume and classical music enclose racks and racks of tasteful robes, teddies and underwear. (Incidentally, the scent and the music are for purchase--for those who want to capture the lingeriestore feel in the privacy of their own homes...
...perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys and 620 sq. mi. of the Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville...
...victory by the violent and well-armed opposition was visible everywhere in the center of Tbilisi. A heavy pall of black smoke hung over the parliament building, where artillery shells had blown away huge chunks of the walls. On nearby Rustaveli Avenue only the scorched facades remained of graceful pastel houses. Gutted buses, twisted car wrecks and hundreds of scattered machine-gun cartridges bore silent witness to the ferocity of the fighting, which, officials said, left at least 90 people dead. Some estimates put the total closer...
With the abundance of outstanding wit and vocals, a set is unnecessary. Jesus and the disciples are differentiated from each other by their pastel colors. And they frequently use costumes and wigs to impress the audience with particular lessons...
Although the S&S is a traditional family-owned business, its owners have clearly decided to adapt to the market: The restaurant, which has been in the family for four generations now, features a deli counter with a neon light and a modern pastel interior...