Word: pinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yugoslav cadets, folk dancers, ballet troupes and high school girls formed colorful ranks: bluer than turquoise, pinker than flamingos. Their snowsuits looked so much like space suits, it might have been a wedding on the moon. Italians tossed snappy striped mufflers over their shoulders. The Canadians came as red-hooded Santas. Four men from Lebanon, all mustachioed, worked up small smiles. And, after cloaked Moroccans in bright burnooses, a one-man band ambled by: George Tucker, the famed Puerto Rican luger (win some, luge some) from Albany, N.Y. With "brakes on all the way," he breathlessly completed the necessary...
...screw up second gear"). The only "Paul Newman" nonsense of the evening is harmless: a very pretty teen-age waitress turns pink and forgets her list of pies as she stares at Paul. He twists his nose goofily between thumb and forefinger and goes cross-eyed; she turns pinker and hides her face, bubbling with giggles. Someone tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility in the face of serious matters...