Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes up the river to Sing Sing, where she visits a darling old narcotics trafficker named Sally Tomato. She finds it perfectly sweet that Sally...
...full-grown nymph (not played by Lahr, but by a half-wrapped nougat named Patricia Englund). And his last ideal cracks like a bone when his friend and adviser, a dedicated artist named Goddard Quagmeyer, sells out to Hollywood, puts on a purple beret, salmon-colored suit, orange ascot, pink shirt, and develops nine simultaneous tics. He is further disillusioned when he meets the president of Charnel House, a publisher with a marked resemblance to Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf, who announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there...
...American girls-one pink (Woodward), one beige (Carroll)-take a two-week holiday in Paris, where they meet two American boys-one pale (Newman), one brown (Poitier)-in an integrated cave where the boys play sliphorn and piano. At first Newman makes a pass at Carroll, but the kids are quickly segregated, and soon they are in love. For Newman, love is short but art is long; he sends Woodward home and stays in Paris to study music. For Poitier, love is a ticket back to the U.S.; he decides to marry Carroll and join her crusade for racial equality...
...unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic show where a young woman was really sawed in half. "I said: 'Well, what's the explanation?' Flora Massingham said: 'there isn't any explanation. He just saws them...
...glitter, it was a subdued affair as opera openings go. There were black ties and evening gowns aplenty, but Lübke and Brandt, mindful of the divided city's precarious situation, shunned the traditional white tie and tails for business suits. One woman sported a pink mink jacket, but not a single diamond tiara could be seen in the house...