Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March of 1983 Christo said he hopes to surround ten islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay with five and a half million square feet of pink fabric, an exploration of the interface between land and water. Environmentalists initially questioned the project because of possible damage to sea-grass, but an impact study disproved their concerns, he said...
...creative, but pity the poor student who innocently passes a pink sign which orders. "FLOW IT." Thinking of other things, he continues on his way, passing, soon, a chartreuse legend: "BRAIDED." He losed his train of thought and regains it in time to be accosted by a purple "spaghettied." At this point, everything snaps, and the hapless pedestrian howls. "What the hell is this?" Another pedestrian passes him and throws over one shoulder, without slowing down. "Hair." "What?" "Hair...
...great care, at much expense, in all his Victorian gloss and tearjerking bluffness. One hears again the squalling pibroch and the coarse jests of whisky millionaires tramping the heather. In this microcosm of gillies and grouse feathers, one is made to see as much moral pathos licked into the pink eye of a rabbit as is pulled by most other Victorian painters from the last act of Romeo and Juliet. It is, to put it mildly, quite an experience...
...Pink Flamingos and Dawn of the Dead--Friday and Saturday at midnight; with The Harder They Come at 12:15 a.m.; Orson Welles Cinemas...
...fierce partisanship, had done much to rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave stout Republican speeches at Republican conventions, puffed on his pipe and wrote some rather mellow reminiscences, including a volume on trout fishing...