Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every Thursday afternoon the ritual of protest is repeated in front of Argentina's presidential Pink House in central Buenos Aires. A small group of women gather in the Plaza de Mayo under the watchful eyes of blue-uniformed police. There, for 30 minutes or so, the women walk in a large circle. There is no sound but their footsteps. Occasionally, the women may try to present a petition at the government building; almost always they are rebuffed. Then they disperse, returning to take up their vigil the following week...
...since become, with some disgruntlement, a city full of outsiders-many of them cosmopolitan and gifted. Neil Simon and his actress wife Marsha Mason have taken a house. So has Movie Actress Amy Irving. Watergate Figure John Ehrlichman, now a writer, frequents the bar of the fashionable, crowded Pink Adobe restaurant. According to the weekly Santa Fe Reporter, the town supports 25 to 30 fast-food restaurants and an astonishing 70 art galleries. The coyly named shops (Señor Murphy Candymaker) could be in Winter Park, Fla., or La Jolla, Calif., or a handful of other Sunbelt centers...
Blake Edwards is a lucky s.o.b. He is finally rich enough to support his career-long addiction to anger. The riches come from his Pink Panther films and "10. "The anger reached nearly self-destructive heights in the early '70s when, after making a string of hits (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made...
...about City Ballet. If there were surprises, there were traditional elements: Balanchine working with Farrell, his principal muse of the past two decades, and Karin von Aroldingen, the ballerina who is perhaps closest to him personally; Robbins pushing the younger dancers but not forgetting Patricia McBride, his Girl in Pink in Dances at a Gathering (1969). But the story of N.Y.C.B. was best told in the frequent use of apprentices and students from the company-related School of American Ballet. Both John Taras, one of the ballet masters, and Peter Martins, the company's top male dancer...
Into their midst come 16 tiny ballerinas in bright pink tutus, burrowing through the lines, frowning with determination...