Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together her two shopping bags, threw her pink polyester scarf over her shoulder and slowly trudged down the 30 rows--off to a senior meeting, she said...
...only with a minimum of nostalgic regret that I mourn the enchanted outer space of my childhood. Comets will always be a white blobs to me, and I no longer idolize astronauts. I have since learned that the exalted Hayden Planetarium's Pink-Floyd-and-astronomy extravaganzas provided psychedelic entertainment for drug users citywide. I find most of our nation's space program to be a waste of time and money. The notion of launching tomato seeds into space is morally repugnant when there are those who die of starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space...
...pointe who had been well rehearsed. In addition there were dancers from the top levels of the school who also fit in very well with the rest of the corps de ballet. This scene was one of the prettiest in the ballet, with the coloring of the costumes representing pink, peach, and yellow flower petals swirling across the stage. The girls carried garlands over their heads (a scene strikingly similar to one in Sleeping Beauty, a ballet Marius Petipa created 22 years after Le Corsaire...
...convocation of moguls had gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that pink palace on Sunset Boulevard, to divvy up Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, in the works for the summer of 1998. Paramount had the script; DreamWorks had the dream director, Steven Spielberg. That the two studios would agree to share the picture is not that unusual. But which one would get to distribute it in the U.S., and which would get the rest of the world? Both sides wanted the domestic release, which means getting the glory if the picture...
...prime ministers, a posh title regularly doled out to political cronies, will be eliminated , leaving former presidential Chief of Staff Chubais, who currently oversees Russia's economic reform drive. The 50 people who head up the government's mind-boggling assortment of federal ministries, agencies and departments also got pink slips . Under the decree, which provided no details, some ministries will be reorganized, while others will be scrapped entirely. While unique in its scope, the presidential decree has a familiar ring to it. Whenever criticism starts to mount, the Yel tsin pen starts scribbling, canning ministers deemed "responsible" for Russia...