Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While to date, Vall's dire prognoses have been almost invariably correct for the two lower echelons, his thoroughbreds -notably Saratoga and Pink Jungle-have all too often turned turkey. Group III, with about 60% profit makers, has actually outperformed Group IV by about 10%-which is why Vail regards a Broadway opening as "the greatest suspense story ever told," and why his handicapping is less than final...
Reclining in pink pajamas on a vast bed in Paris' Hotel George V, Count Jimmy confessed he had missed Fabiola's wedding because the Spanish government (reportedly at the request of the bride) refused him an exit permit as he tried to board a plane for Brussels...
...nerves. Kirchner used quick, jagged strokes that gave his paintings a staccato rhythm. His long and pointed figures had a certain elegance, but they were also painfully intense. As for color, Kirchner sometimes seemed wholly arbitrary: a face could be plum purple or brown; a sidewalk could be candy pink or apple green. The whole idea was to enhance the mood...
...social significance with his left hand (as an editor of the Communist New Masses under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career he transformed into...
...eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler men in the days of the cattle drives than they are in those of "pink Thunderbirds and patio living...