Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the Alewife T-station in Cambridge. This grand dame of a bowl-o-rama offers two floors, 40 lanes and two different types of bowling options--10 pin and the New England phenomenon known as candlepin. Deodorized rental shoes, greasy communal bowling balls, fuzzy multi-colored walls and pink plastic lane dividers make this bowling establishment a palace where tackiness reigns supreme. Inside Lanes and Games, kids frolic and dance down the polished runways and shouts of delight permeate the air. To keep spirits high, the management provides "bumper bowling" for those who can't avoid the menacing gutter...
...pink plastic bucket overflowing with Barbies, many half naked, with limbs askew, sits untouched these days on the bedroom floor. They haven't stood a chance since their owner, Allison Powers, a fifth-grader in Woodridge, Ill., discovered Addy and Samantha. "They're more realistic than Barbie," Allison says, "and they look cooler...
...movie has to use its weak storyline to justify gorgeous panoramas of the icy Andes, Amazonian waterfalls and a view of South America from space that can only be called awesome. Other exotic images include pink dolphins, bigger-than-life insects and creatures that look so absurd they're almost cute. Naturally, the famous Amazonian piranhas and other such dangerous beasts show up and startle the audience, if not with their teeth then with their alien appearances. The mountains tower so high they threaten to break the sky-dome of the screen, the forest envelopes the viewer on all sides...
Perhaps we've tried to copy the flashy tourists, whose hot pink Italian InVicta backpacks are as much an attraction to us as John Harvard is to them. Or maybe, without realizing it, we've imitated the Square hipsters, mixing and matching neon orange and light green suede New Balance sneakers, and picking out black thick-framed glasses to go with our carefully selected messenger bags...
Surrounding the kelp is a dense and delicate garden of tentacled plants that sway in unison, like backup singers. Pink, orange, rose, green, lavender. Plants with Einstein's hair, plants with Don King's and Phyllis Diller's--all kept graceful by the water. The garden is vertical as well as horizontal. On its floor sea stars crawl on their bellies like fat recruits in basic training. Above them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce...