Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life in Washington, as you represent it, is rugged for Her Majesty's ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, forced, in the name of duty, to eat lavender-pink potato salad and dance the Lambeth Walk with strange ladies. Let Sir Roger reflect that his predecessors of 20 years ago had it even rougher: no champagne or Scotch to wash the stuff down with ... At least, in this age of lavender-pink potatoes and policies, Sir Roger does not have to face the grim protocol of Prohibition, which moved the compassion of Hilaire Belloc...
Mossadegh himself scoffs at charges that his ineffective regime is leading Iran towards Communism. He leans back in his pink-painted iron cot and points to his two air conditioners, one British, one American. "Could anyone with a car and air coolers and a good bed like mine be a Communist?" he asks...
...pace is rough. Six days a week, from sunup to sunset, Beaudine drives his crew and cast hard. His pockets are crammed with slips of pink paper on which he has plotted the night before. The cameras have scarcely stopped on one scene before he is shouting "Over here!" and pointing out the spot for the next shot. If a script girl should point out that the badman is not carrying the same ivory-handled six-shooter as in a previous scene, Beaudine says with a shrug: "If the audience notices a thing like that, we've made...
...Spitting Sound. Dennis, a pink, cherub-faced man, takes his music seriously. His lips are insured for ?10,000, and he avoids all sports except table tennis-a ping-pong ball could hardly damage him, he feels. As for his horn-playing technique, modest Dennis has a simple explanation...
...dappled light effect something like Capri's Blue Grotto. The altar is near the wall, dramatically spotlighted from a small bell tower in the ceiling. Outside, to tie the whole project together, Architect Saarinen has designed a majestic plaza set with a mosaic of colored stones, possibly pink, grey and blue triangles...