Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside on the Florida beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position...
...young officers of the Armed Forces Movement who engineered last April's revolution promised elections within a year-and last week they made good on that promise. From his desk in Lisbon's pink stucco Belém Palace, President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that the government had set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free elections in 49 years. The balloting for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, Costa Gomes said on TV, marked "a fundamental milestone" on the path to democracy. Cautioning voters against extremists of both the left...
...works by undergraduates, done at the Radcliffe Pottery Studio, now on show in the second floor exhibition area at Hilles. The stuff is good--especially the porcelain by Namhi Wagner. But the exhibit is spotty. For example, I've never really been able to get into ceramic feet (with pink toenails yet) with clam shells between the toes. The show's purpose is to get people to sign up for classes at the pottery studio, and it doesn't stand on its own, the way the group showing last spring in Hilles did. But I like the exhibit area...
...remark is still true of most reactions to Sir Peter Paul Rubens, the unrivaled master of 17th century Baroque painting. The austerities of modern art have taught us to feel queasy in the presence of his immense worldliness, Shakespearean erudition and, above all, his imagery: those nudes, pink bombé-fronted wardrobes of flesh; those heroes and captains and kings, displaying their vigor and assurance like baroque cock-birds of paradise; the fluster of rich fabrics and cloud, the lions and leopards and marble...
...year. Each month some 300 federally furnished mortgages are defaulted, and more and more homes fall into disrepair. Revenues from property and payroll taxes have sagged, and the municipal budget deficit could reach $40 million this year; 1,500 city workers have been let go so far, and more pink slips...