Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest and most theatrical of all the Leaf works is Street Dreams: The Ascension of the Pig Lady, a grouping of nine characters set in a shallow stage framed by a proscenium arch. Cast as a waitress with porcine pink cheeks and a snoutlike nose, the pig lady is about to be plucked up to heaven by a man and woman sprawling across the top of the arch. Explains Miss Leaf: "If there was going to be another Messiah, it would appear in someone who would never expect it, like a waitress, and she would turn into...
...doing, John? He said, I feel fine. Then he paused for a minute and asked, How are you doing, Doc? I was about to say in a reassuring psychological tone that I felt fine, but I could not, so I said, I feel lousy. John drew back his purple-pink lips, showed his green-yellow teeth in a sickly grin, and said, What's the matter, Doc? Why you feel lousy? I looked with my two microscopic lenses into his eyes. I could see every line, yellow spider webs, red network of veins gleaming out of me, I said, John...
...almost too late to ask it, but those who feel this urgency must act, unashamed and soon. For we are back in the 1950's again, and will have tan shoes, pink shoelaces, and sockhop love if we indulge our apathy. "Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities," R.D. Laing has written. Yes. But it may not be too late to find the ones with whom we will face the night
Back Pay. If there was concern in Washington, there was joy in San Diego. The crewmen were installed in a four-story pink stucco building normally used by students at the Navy's Hospital Corps school; their families checked into the El Cortez Hotel atop a hill in the city's center, their bills to be paid with a $40,000 fund raised by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. The men got some $200,000 in back pay and promptly unloaded some of it in the PX, opened for an hour despite the holiday. After a Christmas...
Divorced. Peter Sellers, 43, Britain's bumbling prince of the clowns (The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove); by Britt Ecklund, 25, sometime Swedish actress; on uncontested grounds of cruelty; after nearly five years of marriage, one child; in London...