Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What did this international femme fatale have that her rivals (often the wives of her lovers) did not? "Pink like a peach that you wanted to bite into," recalled an observer. There was the acquired Churchill name and a knack for what Bedell Smith calls Zelig-like appearances among history makers. There was also what friends saw as her "ardent femininity" and detractors called "the manner of a hot housemaid...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The American worker of today has no voice on Wall Street. Too many companies, realizing healthy profits, reward today's worker with a pink slip and a good recommendation...
...Most criminals in this state are less frightened of you than of Inspector Clouseau," said Kerry, referring to the bumbling detective in the Pink Panther movies...
Peter suffers from a deep passivity, bred by East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...
...open-air suspension bridge with a greenhouse at one end and a 500-ft. residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look...