Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neared the end of high school, her father loosened up the rules--and Braxton bought her first pair of pants. "They were Levi's," she says. "I'll never forget. Straight-legged Levi's. From there I got to wear nail polish--like a very pale pink." She even threw a pool party senior year--although the only music she was permitted to play was gospel...
BOOKS . . . GOING DOWN: Before the onset of its Disneyfication, New York City1s Times Square boasted a grim-looking strip club that successfully distinguished itself from the area1s many other grim- looking strip clubs. In big pink letters on a white marquee, this establishment proudly alerted passersby that it featured live girls working their way through college. Patrons, presumably, found topless women who had taken the SATs to be more tantalizing than those who had not. That's the basis for Jennifer Belle's comic first novel, Going Down (Riverhead Books; $12; 254 pages), which chronicles a year in the life...
...prints all faded to unintelligablity--his widow and the score's composer Legrand remastered "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" from surviving remnants. How grateful we should all be for the chance to freebase on this pure, unadulterated kitsch, this seven-gun salute to the blonde virgin in a pink frock and matching bow which lives, at some level...
Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is the champion of the geeks at Ben Franklin Junior High school in a New Jersey suburb--even the other nerds call her by her inevitable moniker "wiener dog." Home is no refuge for Dawn. Her mother (Angela Pietropinto), presumably the same woman who inflicts pink and purple one-piece feety-pajamas on a twelve year old girl, bullies poor Dawn, even making her tear down the "Special People Clubhouse." Little sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) steals the spotlight, pirouetting around the font yard in a tutu, and big brother Mark (Matthew Faber) plays clarinet...
...this technique were not enough to squelch narrative interest in her people, Proulx often introduces parenthetical flash-forwards detailing the ways in which her characters will die: "(Some year or two later, Snakes, using a climbing rope with a single core in a color pattern of purple, neon pink, teal and fluorescent yellow, hung himself in the cab of his truck. A note on the seat read, 'I'm not going to wear glasses.')" The emphasis in this passage pervades the entire novel: things survive and are worth careful descriptions, while people are passing fancies. That could have been conveyed...