Word: pasteles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft glow, the dead-black background of the murals seems to recede. Saturn with its rings stands out almost in three dimensions, clear and cold and quiet. The waving streamers of the aurora shimmer in a delicate pastel curtain. Flamelike solar prominences erupt from the surface of the sun with more clarity than in the original coronagraph pictures. Nothing seems to stand still: the murals vibrate with energy...
...performance of Brahms's virtuoso Variations on a Theme by Paganini swept along like a fresh breeze in a musty corridor, slamming doors on heavy-handed traditions and uncovering the fine old structure. Listeners heard more details than they believed possible, played in tones of pastel shading. Then the pianist flashed through Schoenberg's tortuous Suite, Op. 25 and surprised even hardened modern music lovers: its improbable burblings came through almost as easily as a Viennese waltz. After that came Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 110 and, for a dazzling change of pace, Ravel's Gaspard...
...headache in the industry is self-induced: the constant scramble for new mutations among the ranchers and their minks. Time was when a woman would go into a shop and simply ask for mink; now she asks for such varieties as Black Diamond, Topaze (a golden brown) or Royal Pastel (a honey beige). As each new mutation hits the market, as in the case of white Jasmine last week, it is ballyhooed throughout the trade. Result: within a year it is more plentiful, and prices skid...
Holmes has all the advantages of up to date design. The 51 rooms, uniformly covered with light pastel shades, have pine furniture, pine beds, and pine doors. In each room there are two desk lamps. The accent on living is an accent on simplicity and mass-production good taste...
...tried to kidnap him, too. But his luck held. Roe, who habitually packed a pistol, got away, leaving a hoodlum named Leonard ("Fat Lennie") Caifano dead. Roe enjoyed life-he drove a Cadillac, wore $50 neckties, and lived in a flamboyant apartment which boasted a revolving television set and pastel-tinted telephones to match the color scheme of each room...