Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHAMP WORE PINK. A PINK robe, pink shoes, pink trunks and, thanks to the mixture of blood and sweat but certainly not tears, a pink shirt that was once white. Fighting on the undercard of the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno W.B.C. heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas on March 16, Christy Martin, billed as the Coal Miner's Daughter, won a unanimous six-round decision over Deirdre Gogarty, unbilled as the daughter of two Irish dentists...
FIRST COMES THE DOCTOR; THEN THE PRIEST; THEN THE undertaker; and finally, Sotheby's. When you come down to it, auctioneering is a lugubrious trade. It thrives on death, divorce and debt, and the pink, deferential Brit in the now empty Park Avenue living room is to upper-class America what buzzards once were to luckless prospectors in Arizona. When the famous die, the salesmen perk up--but the trouble is that the really good art and antiques do not necessarily belong to the really famous. Ergo, find a way of using their fame to endorse their possessions, and turn...
...just about finished reading last month's "women's issue" of the New Yorker. Instead of the signature snub-nosed man adorning its cover, it features a woman in pink peering through a lorgnette. The articles inside range from a scrutiny of Las Vegas hotel workers to a sketch by playwright Wendy Wasserstein about her over-achieving older sister...
...wonder if the woman in the old-fashioned pink dress on the cover of the New Yorker has ever thought about these things. Somehow, I doubt...
...this bad anywhere else." Dilbert began to chronicle downsizing, hotelling (when a company has fewer cubicles than employees, and every morning is a game of musical chairs) and similar horrors. One strip introduced the Can-o-Matic, "a rest-room stall that randomly fires people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and catapulting them out of the building." In another, Dilbert's boss uses humor as a management tool. "Knock, knock," he says. "Who's there?" asks a worker. "Not you anymore...