Word: pasteles
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...bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls-but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales-of birds, foxes, fish and mice-caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only one lady author of children's literature: Mother Goose...
...dazzling choreographic sequence of episodes that sometimes deliberately echo each other, but never quite repeat. There is no story line, only a progression from simplicity to sumptuousness, from youth to maturity. In the early variations, which have about them an air of soft, bucolic wonderment, the dancers appear in pastel-shaded practice clothes. In the final scenes, which call upon the full resources of the huge cast (49 in all), they are resplendent in Baroque dress...
...their nightly bacchanalia. "They haven't had time to set themselves up all the way. They're just not ready to give their money away." No, argued the more daring of us, those who hadn't combed their hair or who had left the top two buttons of pastel-colored shirts unbuttoned. "The alumni hate us. They think we're a bunch of communists...
Died. Charles A. Cannon, 78, chairman of Cannon Mills Co.; of a stroke; in Kannapolis, N.C. Son of the company's founder, Cannon initiated a number of industry advances, including pastel colors for towels and matching towel sets, that helped to make Cannon Mills one of the largest textile companies in the nation (1970 sales, $306 million). Yet he was also the last of the oldtime textile barons. He owned and ran the company town of Kannapolis. Though his company was a publicly held corporation, he once refused to send proxy material to outside stockholders because the New York...
...American Dream. Or maybe the super cop-out. Liberal law student marries Maddox-admiring, Spiroesque Tricia. Muffled beneath her pink and pastel dresses and white lace she says, in response to the Agnew press critiques, "Never underestimate the power of fear...