Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice try but no cigar," said Tim. "Eleven million they spend for this picture and all of a sudden it's for borscht?" He did this in a flamboyant Hollywood accent. The quote was from a Jane Russell picture called The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown. And after that, the takes went beautifully...
...March 1, the rugged, 200-lb. Esposito flipped in a 20-ft. wrist shot to become the first N.H.L. player ever to score 100 points in regular season play. Boston Garden fans responded with a 15-minute standing ovation, showering him with hats, programs, and even a pink brassiere. Three weeks after Esposito's feat, baby-faced Bobby Orr celebrated his 21st birthday by firing in a last-second goal against Chicago. That gave Boston a 5-5 tie and Orr his 21st goal of the season, breaking a 24-year-old record for defensemen...
...GAVE UP a date Saturday night to go to the Adams House mixer. Why on earth did I do that? Because somebody handed me a pink sheet of paper at the free concert in the Yard earlier that afternoon and I was touched...
Maybe we weren't supposed to go to the mixer. But someone had announced it at the concert. And the pink sheet said we were invited to music in the afternoon and to spend the night(s) at Adams House. There we were promised "the joyful transformation of our daily life and the end of alienation...
Each one remained an anonymous individual, safe and insular. Was this a way out of alienation and into joy as the pink sheet promised? On the contrary, it was self-defense and nothing more. There was no life at the Adams House Blizzard Mixer. There was only survival...