Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though some traffic between the two houses exists on this level, most of it runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...
...HEARD ABOUT IT, NOW GO SEE IT, reads the slogan on an Air Vietnam tourist poster showing a fetching maiden in a pink ao-dai. For any American who feels he has not seen enough of the place, about $2,000 will buy him round-trip transportation, a room in the best hotels and a generous sampling of Viet Nam's cuisine...
...Alejandro Lanusse, the outgoing military president, prudently avoided difficulty by using a helicopter. It was just as well: violence began when one young Perónist descamisado (shirtless one) pounded on the limousine bearing two other members of Argentina's military junta to inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might escalate into full-scale riots, Cámpora issued a statement that was broadcast pleading for "restraint and tranquillity...
...office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that this was Hawaiian Week. Then he saw his sales manager approaching in a grass skirt and a pink T shirt that said "Make Love Not War." The sales manager greeted Dwayne by saying "Aloha...