Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
...mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night sweats, anxiety attacks during the hour of the wolf. Having horrid neighbors seems a small problem, given the generous range of human suffering, until they actually move...
...rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send out little silver-painted boats laden with flowers...
...holes closed up for the Cornell attackmen and a tightly ordered Crimson defense went to work. The line of Haywood Miller, Scott Pink and Frank Prezioso snuffed out the the Cornell firebrands with ease...
...years of playing side by side allowed Miller, Pink and Prezioso to read each other's minds and those of the opposing offense. The Crimson scooped up 60 ground balls to Cornell's 45, establishing clear superiority on the recoveries...