Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital custom: the turn-of-the-year list of what's In and what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots...
June 12: Margaret Thatcher, dubbed Attila the Hen by critics, loses a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. A mysterious fire sweeps through the Parliament building. Citing the danger of ceding control of new American missiles in Europe to the "pink forces within the Labor Party," Thatcher imposes martial law and seizes power for an indefinite period...
...Gardiner had been created for him. In any case, he portrays perfectly the simple voice and simple gestures of this simple man whose world of TV and roses expands around him to include politics and sex without expanding him. He is miraculously changed from the comic inanity of the Pink Panther tales or even his tense how-deep-is-your glove performance in Dr. Strangelove. While Being There demands a Brooklyn-Bridge-sized suspension of disbelief, Sellers never loses Gardiner's innocent, vulnerable essence...