Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, it has come to my attention that several groups on campus are fighting over pink triangles versus blue squares. Without any truly critical issues facing the world, I can completely understand these groups' concern. After all, what are a recession, a budget crisis and imminent war and midterms in the face of colors and geometry? With this in mind, I decided to develop my own position and present it to the world...
Unfortunately, my plan was shattered. My roommate was kind enough to explain that these little colored symbols actually represented something. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that all the problems facing bisexuals, gays and lesbians could be solved by pink triangles. It is insignificant compared to my shock upon learning that all the desirable morals and values of the world are contained within a blue square...
Then I learned that blue squares opposed pink triangles. Are we now going to be besieged by posters of soft pornography right before parent's weekend, I wondered? How exciting! But, to my intense disappointment, this was not going to be. "Imagine what else I could have learned!" No, we were instead deluged by text from a group with the most annoying acronym in modern history...
...career of his second wife, the writer and actress Carrie Fisher, with whom he is not, at the moment, on speaking terms. This doesn't stop either of them from writing about the other, however. There is a Simonized character named Rudy in her current best seller, Surrender the Pink. But her ex-husband, who has read the book, acts like a man who was let off easy and maybe got in the last, best licks as well...
Sullivan, who wore a pink triangle on his jacket for part of the evening before removing it for a photo oppor- tunity, added that he was not disturbed by theACT-UP protests. The pink triangle has been usedto show support for gay rights...