Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story was also an experiment in the rites of beauty. She happily underwent two hair stylings, a permanent, a luxurious facial, was sprayed, splashed and anointed with cosmetics by almost everyone. For the story of the U.S. woman's pursuit of beauty, see BUSINESS, The Pink Jungle...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
...head pierced with grotesque thorns. The attendant figures sustain and even amplify the sense of total horror and shock. The figure of Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross is modeled on Griinewald's ideal of Nordic beauty, with wildly flowing silky blonde hair, sumptuous, rippling salmon-pink robe and veil. Griinewald has painted beauty moved to the ultimate of grief; Mary Magdalene's delicate features are a frozen mask of sorrow, her fingers writhe numbly, and even the sleeves of her elegant gown appear twisted and rigid...
...VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...
...modern civilization. Among them: a cavernous closet just for Miss Crawford's 304 pairs of shoes, another for her cosmetics and pills, a special shampoo and hairdressing basin with spray faucets, a massage table and whirlpool tub for Steele, a diamond-shaped dining-room table, a geranium-pink bedroom with wood-burning fireplace...