Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garment District is by far the largest usedclothing store in Boston, with over 13,000 squarefeet of floor space. It is a clean store withdressing rooms and funky decorations, including apair of hanging motorcycles, a mechanical monkey,a bust of Elvis and a life-sized pink plastichorse. The Garment District caters to both youngand old, who generally learn of the store by wordof mouth...
...Kiss, 1962, both appear together. The comic frame is the key that enabled Lichtenstein to unlock his nostalgia for experiences he was old enough to have had but didn't -- he went into a pilot training program in Mississippi in 1944 and might have been that pink boy embracing his sweetheart in front of the bomber. His girls are the nymphs of a lost Arcadia of gush, as remote from us now as Gibson girls were from the '60s. Their innocence is oddly counterpointed by the naivete with which they are painted...
...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...favorite food Those pink candies flavored with wintergreen. Canada Mints I think they're called...
...decor is a phantasmagoric wave of colors straight out of Sonny and Crockett's backyard. There are the hot-pink napkins placed on the nearly fluorescent green tables, and the random rainbow-colored paintings hanging on the dramatically white walls. It's almost as though they were trying to simulate how Pepto-Bismol works inside one's stomach. The whole mess is just too damn loud. But then again, the spicy, fruity food actually blends in quite nicely with this decor...