Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Italy produces more wine than France or Spain, yet has fewer vineyards than either country. The reason for this phenomenon is that a considerable amount of its wine production is as far removed from the fermented juice of the grape as molasses is from pink champagne. For years, racketeers have bedeviled the country's important wine industry by ingeniously simulating the taste, bouquet and appearance of every known type of Italian wine. Using a grizzly variety of waste materials and chemicals, they make wine in as little as eight hours (v. as much as a year for genuine wine...
Westbrook: Purple paper with pink ink! Pink paper with purple...
...startling to see shocking-pink monuments, paintings of mountainous breasts and blinking assemblages inside and outside the ornate, Graustarkian palaces. Once again it was time for the staid city of Kassel-in West Germany to come to hypermodern life. It happens every four years. The occasion is Documenta, an international exhibit that on three previous occasions established a reputation as the most comprehensive survey of new art anywhere...
...radically pink professor of promiscuity, delector of delights, collector of the sights, defector of all rights, rejection of the fight, defecating deities galore. And what's more you know the score. You turkey...
...heard on an occasional Sunday night when she is in Detroit. Just as she did a dozen years ago, she goes to her father's services to sing a solo. She was there one recent evening, standing somewhat apart at first, a little dressy in mink-trimmed pink, preoccupied and somber. A drenching rain was falling outside, but 1,000 parishioners had shown up: Aretha was back...