Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost a decade ago, Pink Floyd played a 2½-hr. concert on the shores of the Crystal Palace pond in London. To enhance their trippy riffs and overweening crescendos, the Pinkies brought on a 50-ft. inflatable octopus and detonated a fireworks display. By the time of the first encore, all the fish in the lake had died, victims of the band's cosmic boom and crushing decibels...
...intervening years, the body count has dwindled. Pink Floyd still machine-tools the kind of head-shop Muzak that they helped pioneer during the first shocks of the '60s psychedelic movement and that, with considerable refining and embellishment, they shaped into 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the largest and longest sellers in rock history. The Dark Side of the Moon has sold 6½ million copies in the U.S. since its release, has been on the charts for 299 weeks and recently rose from the nether regions to occupy a respectable place...
This late burst of activity is directly traceable to the surprise success of the new Pink Floyd album, The Wall, which has become the country's No. 1 album and which shows few signs of giving way to the competition. This is all the more remarkable because the two Floyd albums between The Moon and The Wall achieved only modest success. There was every reason to believe that the Floyd had gone under, sunk beneath the collective weight of their cosmic speculations and primal ruminations. The resurgence represented by The Wall and by the Pinkies' current concert tour...
...that make up the lining of the lung were all coated. The infants were immediately placed in a 100% oxygen atmosphere and put on respirators to help aerate their lungs. Before long, they were breathing more normally, and within hours, they had turned from deathly gray to a healthy pink...
...progressive perceptions of death. An early casualty seems almost comic, "marching blindly to Valhalla" off a landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal detachment the upper body of a man falling slowly backward while his legs and trunk remain standing...