Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your welldeserved retirement, your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
...dead turkey seems in mourning for itself, painted mostly in black, its pink head-the sole patch of bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death...
...colored it a radiant purple. She says, "Long hair is a real commitment, but since it is so short now, dyeing is not such a big deal. And I have always wanted purple hair." Tera Hong '98, who at home had only highlighted her hair, dyed it pink at Harvard. When asked what motivated her to dye, she replied that "It was something interesting to do. I did not do it at home mostly because of my parents." Ah, the freedom that pours forth from a bottle of peroxide...
Within the past five years, it has been 14 different colors, including apple green, poppy red, honey blonde, Atlantic blue and flamingo pink. She changes her color about every six weeks, and she says her color choice often reflects her mood. "If I feel I am becoming a more serious person, it doesn't make sense to look in the mirror and see pink or yellow, so I dye my hair black or dark brown. But sometimes I just dye it to emphasize nature's colors. I usually dye some shade of blue in the summer, because then it doesn...
While rubber gloves and gooey cream may bring fellow dyers closer together, viewing a pink head of hair does not inspire quite the same enthusiasm in the average brown-haired Joe. Out of the corner of their eyes, our dyers often catch sight of open-mouthed gapes and wide-eyed stares. "No stranger ever says anything," Brown says. "They just stare." Workman adds that "little kids can't keep their eyes off my hair." Of course, these enraptured spectators can hardly be blamed for their violation of Ms. Vanderbilt's no-staring rule. The novelty of blue hair is justification...