Word: pasteles
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That amazing mechanism, the human eye, adjusts itself to Los Angeles in a matter of hours. The optic nerves grow submissive before the red glare of geraniums, the flash of windshields, the sight of endless and improbable vistas of pastel stucco. Even on his first, casual, hundred-mile drive the pilgrim achieves a kind of stunned tranquillity, and gazes unblinkingly at palace-studded mountains, rat-proofed palms, and supermarkets as big as B-2Q hangars...
...sales began to sag, Phillips proved that he knew how to find customers in a buyers' market. More & more men were wearing ties with fancy, outlandish patterns that clashed with old-style striped shirts. Phillips switched three of Phillips-Jones's eleven plants to full production of pastel-colored shirts which would go well with loud ties...
...Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow rises out of the subsiding suds and sentiments to arch the happy ending...
...Four hundred men's clothing manufacturers, meeting in Boston, optimistically announced that they would dress U.S. males in gay plumage in 1949. Proposed innovations: nylon socks in rainbow colors, jackets with big patch pockets and matching belts, pastel shirts and two-tone belts with big "bold look" buckles...
...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...