Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Caroline Kennedy was almost an assistant hostess. Togged out in a white organdy dress embroidered with pink and green rosebuds ("It's my very best"), she had a smile for every visitor and tapped her foot delicately when the Marine Band played her own request: Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Said the First Lady, pleased by her daughter's White House social debut: "I'd much rather she learned these things firsthand than have her hear us talking about them upstairs...
Resplendent in pink robe and home-made cardboard crown, Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God and presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, urged a crowd of 150 undergraduates "to be as daring spiritually as you are intellectually." But, before Tomlinson could win many converts, three University police hustled him to a Lamont office...
...still more or less beat, and suffer for it. The famed Gas House in Los Angeles' Venice West grows ever longer on sideburns and shorter on talent. Denver's Green Spider hides behind an exterior mural of a fat blonde nude dancing with a shocking-pink centaur, and has no entertainment except spontaneous poetry readings by bearded bards who specialize in dirty dactyls...
...Pink & Sapphire. As critic, Soby wrote the first U.S. book on surrealism and neoromanticism, then turned out a study of Italian Painter Giorgio de Chirico that Alfred Barr calls "the best monograph on a living artist." His own nine De Chiricos are probably as good as anything the artist ever turned out. Yet it is hard to say they are the best of the collection...
Picasso's tiny Nude Seated on a Rock -curves of pink flesh set against a sapphire sky-gleams like a piece of jewelry. There are lonely street scenes by the Russian-born American, Eugene Berman, a moving little Fisherwoman by Berman's equally romantic brother Leonid. In the fiery Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean...