Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does the analogy fit? Has Hillary Clinton ever been associated with anything quite as shameful as Richard Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign, when, brimming with anti-communist arrogance after sending Alger Hiss to prison, Nixon ruthlessly demonized his Democratic opponent as "pink right down to her underwear?" Mrs. Clinton has been one of the most criticized, pilloried, and despised First Ladies. Yet, has she ever launched into a bitter and embarassing tirade at the press, like Nixon, who in 1962, angrily declared to reporters: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore...
Twinlights' pinnacle is its remake of the obscure "Pink Orange Red." Like 1984's "The Spangle-Maker," their most accessible and popular song to date, "Pink Orange Red" never really resolves. The first minute of the song consists of Fraser's tentative vocals hovering over three muted piano chords. Fragile acoustic finger-picking and the barely audible pulse of synthesized strings are slowly woven in while Fraser's voice soars to subtly cathartic heights. The song ends by spiraling into a minute of vocal trilling that calls to mind the continuous, fluttering fall of autumn leaves...
...basement of Dunster House near F-entry last fall, a bright pink sign loudly proclaimed a call to arms: "Down with the dean...
...hires? No, new fires. Or at least AT&T employees who have been told they are "unassigned" (translation: they can expect a pink slip any day). Murray Hill is one of seven AT&T "resource centers" around the country where laid-off employees can spend their last days with the company typing up resumes and looking through computer databases for leads to new jobs. These centers will be among the busiest places in the company throughout the year. AT&T will be letting go 40,000 more employees, or 13% of its entire staff, about 70% of them before...
...Thomas Bliley, the pro-business chairman of the House Commerce Committee, ridicules the FDA's drug-approval procedures as "paralysis by analysis." The Washington Legal Foundation, a vociferously antiregulatory group funded by conservative organizations and companies, has relentlessly attacked the FDA through lawsuits, press releases (sometimes printed on lurid pink and purple paper) and a series of vitriolic print ads. "If a murderer kills you, it's homicide," one declared. "If a drunk driver kills you, it's manslaughter. If the FDA kills you, it's just being cautious...