Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie My Fair Lady opens in October, it will hammer into the public consciousness a new appreciation of an old art style that was known in its day as art nouveau-new art. In planning the film's sets and 1,000 period costumes, complete with white lace, pink muslin, and ostrich feathers sprouting from extravagant hats, British Designer Cecil Beaton drew on childhood memories of Edwardian England at the turn of the century. He thereby put the movie right in the current stylistic swim. For a decade the revival of art nouveau has been building in nostalgic museum...
...that decry the injustices of war, segregation and cheating hearts. One by one, the cult's high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...
INDIA. Water cascades down the exterior of the glass pavilion, a quote from Gandhi is carved in pink marble, and sari-clad girls welcome the visitor to view such Indian art objects as the palace doors of Rajasthan, Hindu temple hangings, Buddha sculptures and miniature paintings...
FLORIDA has pink flamingos nuzzling in a garden, porpoises prancing in a pool, and a little gem of an art show. The 13 paintings and three sculptures, all masterworks, include a Rubens, a Veronese, one of Monet's wavery Water Lilies, a smoo h Brancusi bronze, a stark Soulages and Gaston Lachaise's Elevation...
...Dark. Four shots, in fact. A police car roars up to the porte-cochere of a chateau and out steps-sacrebleu!-it is the terror of Montmartre, the Napoleon of criminology! It is Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sureté. Fresh from his daring exploits in The Pink Panther, the inspector is a model of sangfroid. Beneath the vigorous mustache, the lips are ironical; beneath the snap-brim felt, the darting eyes see everything-well, everything except the goldfish pond. Splat...