Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painting Manhattan a mild pink, with five other Soviet musicians, Russia's famed Composer Dmitry Shostakovich mustered a rare smile when meeting...
...ministers of France's Fifth Republic seated themselves in gilt armchairs in scrupulous order of rank in the half-darkened Salle des Fêtes of Paris' Elysée Palace. As they did so, lights flooded the pink brocade curtains at the entrance to the onetime royal box that overlooks the room. Precisely at the stroke of four, white-gloved hands parted the curtains, and Charles de Gaulle, blinking against the lights, appeared in the box to open his second press conference since he became President of France eleven months...
...opera buffs, she is known as the star of several fine recordings, including Madame Butterfly (RCA Victor) and Capriccio (Angel). As Verdi's consumptive heroine, she demonstrated last week that her acting is almost as good as her voice. Strikingly handsome in a hoopskirted, bare-shouldered, pink ball gown, she made the Violetta of Act I into a moving figure of feverishly hectic gaiety. As the opera progressed, the coquettish attitudes gave way gradually, until by the final act Violetta emerged as a woman of tragic stature. Throughout, the radiant, controlled voice lent a superb air of emotional conviction...
Many a tender nursery rhyme barely holds its own. At seven or eight, children tire of versions tied in pink and blue ribbons. They prefer...
...undisputed genius of the flamboyant world of cosmetics is Charles Haskell Revson, president of Revlon, Inc. From Charlie Revson's hard-as-steel mind spring the soft and alluring shades-Red Caviar, Pink Lightning, Plum Beautiful-that have touched the lips of more U.S. women than those of any other maker. Last week, at 53, trim (5 ft., 8½ in., 144 lbs.), handsome Charlie Revson ran into some embarrassing new facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon...