Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes and 43 seconds after the explosion, the shock wave rocked the fleet, roaring dully in men's eardrums for some 30 seconds. The mushroom rose high above dark bands of natural clouds, showing traces of brown and small brilliant pinpoints of light, tinctured cerise and pink by the dawn. Ten minutes later the cloud towered 80,000 to 90,000 ft. above the sea. In five more minutes it stood 100,000 ft. up. Flattening out, its spread covered 100 miles. Winds bore the fallout far from inhabited land, away across the empty ocean...
Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service (TIME, April...
...Pink Champagne. Marilyn's publicity clippings began to arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...
...This was pink champagne, and Marilyn loved it. But there was an emotional hangover. What she needed, Marilyn felt in a confused way, was not success so much as salvation. She developed a passion to put her life in order, and her vague longings to find a meaning in it took stronger direction. She had already enrolled in an extension course in literature at U.C.L.A. and had started a collection of classical records. Now she plowed deeper into her problem through psychoanalysis, got in touch with lettered people, e.g., Poetess Edith Sitwell, whenever she had the chance, began to read...
...studio for better parts, and to wonder if she really should not marry baseball's Joe DiMaggio, with whom she had been keeping company for more than a year. When Fox told her flatly that she could have Betty Grable parts or nothing, Marilyn walked out of Pink Tights. She and Joe were married in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1954. Laughing for the cameras, they took their trip to the Far East, where Japanese crowds smashed doors, mobbed cars and fell in fish ponds to get a look at the "Honorable Buttocks-Swinging Actress." When Marilyn sang...