Word: pastel
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...freshly scrubbed brown and white and yellow Sing-Out Kids burst onto the Sanders Theatre stage singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Their blue eyes gleamed and smiles wrapped all the way around their faces. Their hair was short and they wore yellow and tan and blue blazers or pastel jumpers with white blouses. And they were loud, singing there on the risers below a huge Up With People! Sign...
...stage, Succeed succeeded by being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...
...main thing about a Parisian mini-Shetland is not its downy wool or its colors, which range from black to brilliant to pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch...
...them are among the most glowing tributes in the Philadelphia exhibition. Yet as portraits, they have a certain detachment. Faces are fuzzy; full-length figures pose before blurry backgrounds almost devoid of perspective; details of decor are slighted at will. Even the deep-dip decolletage of his 1882 pastel of a young girl is erotic seemingly by accident...
...visiting doctor at the A.M.A. meeting had just had a little blood drawn from his arm. He watched while a technician dropped the specimen into the machine. Within a minute, he saw pastel-colored samples of his diluted serum being pumped through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then...