Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backstage, the models are sitting half naked on the dressing-room floors, painting pink and blue Kabuki stripes on their eyelids. The dressers hover over their racks, rolling pink and yellow and gray pantyhose for instant changes. The hat, jewelry, makeup and music co-ordinators stand ready. "Take it off, it's too white," says Galanos, snatching a rope of beads from the neck of a black-and-white coat. The models line up for the opening parade. Makeup and style have reduced them to pure line and angle. They look like fashion sketches of, say, 1936. They swagger...
...from the back, next to the table offering chocolate-covered strawberries, white wine and cheese cookies. Saleswomen are as essential to these customers as hairdressers and reliably neutral escorts. "Well, well, at last, it's my favorite," carols a champion seller, arms out to lead a client into the pink, louvered privacy of the dressing rooms. Once inside, the client keeps up the conversation, almost a stream of consciousness, rambling from how her daddy picked her name to her plans for furnishing her new condo to her doctor's decision about her thyroid. Like a good Southern girl, she remains...
What are our alternatives? To start with, I propose a giant bonfire at a central campus location where we can all bring our argyle socks. Bean jackets, green and pink corduroy pants, monogrammed sweaters, and other preppie paraphernalia and torch it once and for all. This includes all the straw baskets, all trendy sunglasses (and neckstraps), and those ugly Bean blucher shoes...
...most meaningful female utterance is Don't the eggplants look wonderful today? After which this female is promptly blasted off the face of the earth by still more macho men. Yet women have their place in this movie filing their pink nails baking birthday takes posing in the background with little to say or wear. One women though is allowed to touch a word processor. And our heroine Diana participates in a marathon chase scene through the Loop and remembers not to drop her purse Later the survives a night from the ceiling her armpits are unshaven but she still...
...April, and 15 stories below, tugs and barges are plowing through the wind-whipped water of the East River. But in the living room of his Manhattan apartment, Rex Harrison is enjoying spring: masses of Michaelmas daisies and tulips, great pots of begonias and African lilies, and islands of pink-and-white quince. He has just returned from a rehearsal, and, as he sits down to talk about a career that spans six decades, he admits to being tired. The play, Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?, was a sellout in London last year; it opens on Broadway...