Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the only thing that might be called progress by anybody occurred in a small, pink and gold room in one corner of the Palais des Nations. Without a word to the press, three mufti-clad Viet Minh officers and five French Union officers, also in civilian clothes, walked into the room at a prearranged time and sat down at two widely spaced tables. Their purpose was to map the areas controlled by the opposing forces, and settle areas for regroupment. Without benefit of chairman, they began a hesitant discussion of procedure. Though everybody understood French, the Viet Minh...
...second day observers got a closer look of genius at work. As the orchestra hushed to a quiet, the old man came onstage, baby-pink and robust. He was chewing his favorite cherry pastilles. Titian-haired Soprano Nelli was all set for her first solo, Ritorna Vincitor!, from Aïda. The maestro conducted vigorously. Whispered a technician in the control booth: "What a man! Look at that beat." With the run-through and actual recording completed, the playback started. Toscanini listened intently, poring over the score, at times reconducting the music. In his high-collared rehearsal jacket, he looked...
...Egyptian government has been building a road for the convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
...other three components of the film, Dinah Shore's singing takes second by default; but her acting, as a saucy WAC, is indifferent at best. Served up by Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, the romance is undigestible and the buffet of Goldwyn girls clad in turquoise and pink pedal-pushers is not the most authentic picture of WAC regiments...