Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the audience members opposed the panelists and many wore pink-triangle buttons and rainbow stickers in support of National Coming Out Day, which was also fell on Friday...
...restaurant in downtown Minneapolis that's been around longer than I have. In my childhood, there were the Big Three, Charlie's, Harry's and Murray's, and only Murray's survives. It is the sort of grand old joint you find in any big city, restaurants with pink drapes and a 70-year-old coat-check girl and a pianist who plays Deep Purple and the waitresses have names like Agnes and Gladys and the menu harks back to the Age of Steak; a place where a fiftyish couple can enjoy a Manhattan and tuck into a chunk...
...have gone back about once every three or four years, and the magic seems never to wear off, the sight of the pink drapes, the mirrors, the candelabrum sconces, the red plush chairs, the candles flickering on the white linen--it still elates me, the Silver Butter Knife feels like a bright sword in my hand. And last year I returned with four old friends and my wife Jenny. It was one of the happiest nights I can remember, everyone yakking and laughing, eating steak, drinking a big booming red wine, feeling flush and lovable. And then I went back...
...dangling from the lobes of stockbrokers, bartenders and truck drivers, what's a hip guy to do to distinguish himself? Well, for starters he could paint his fingernails olive, khaki and black. And, apparently, he does. Last year Urban Decay decided to advertise its unisex grungy nail colors--"Does pink make you puke?"--in magazines with male readers, like Spin, Rolling Stone and Interview, instead of in women's magazines. Nationwide, Urban Decay rang up first-year sales of $5 million, at $11 a bottle--a lot of them to guys...
...conditions under which Batista, 50, operates when he is in Brazil are spartan at best. There is little modern monitoring equipment at his Curitiba hospital. Instead, his technicians are instructed to look for three things: the patient's feet should be pink, to demonstrate adequate blood pressure; there should be urine output, to indicate that the patient has not lost kidney function; and the surgical drain should be clear, to show no internal bleeding. Surgeons depend on large windows in the operating room to provide adequate light for operations...