Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first night in Paris, Jackie was dressed, coifed and made up as elaborately as any princess. When she emerged from her bedroom at the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres, she was magnificent in a narrow, pink-and-white straw-lace gown and a swooping 14th century hairdo with a fake topknot. Even John Kennedy, a man who is not notably attentive to the nuances of fashion, was frankly impressed. "Well," he said, "I'm dazzled...
...born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even today, his ideological position remains open to argument. "All the reactionaries call me liberal...
...sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat,'' said its owner. "This engine was souped up until it can't be no more without blowing up." Near by cruised a soft, inboard on whose stern was mounted a mink-lined doghouse, home for the pink toy poodle of its master's pink-haired wife...
Upon arriving, the giddy client repairs to (he dressing room, where her street clothes are shorn from her apprehensive body, and is given a pink Balmain-designed gown and gold plastic slippers. Then she can take it all off again for a dip in the sunken Roman bath (bubble, spa or sea water), dry herself on prewarmed towels, and get a massage ($10). Then, any one of the eleven well-coifed hairdressers, costumed in black suits with red linings, will perform a variety of hairdos, right on up to a $35 permanent, after which comes a sprawl in the drying...
There are other attractions in Tahiti. Tourist companies run two-night excursions to Moorea ($88) that include native dances and feasts that are more enjoyable than Hawaii's. In the valleys are deep, clear pools where a swimmer can splash beneath waterfalls; along the reefs are mahoa, pink-shelled snails that can be gathered and eaten raw or fried in butter; in the lagoons are fish easily speared; near by are bananas, papayas and limes for the plucking...