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Word: pinkness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ONLY THING more overdone in Angel than the cliches is the film's symbolism. It isn't enough that director O'Neil accentuates Angel's goodness by having her wear saddle shoes and bobby socks to school. But no, she also has to don pretty red ribbons, have a pink and purple bedroom set, and have an appropriately ambiguous nickname. And, should we forget that Molly is a good girl by her occasional use of profanity and her rather unscrupulous coterie of nighttime acquaintances who work the Hollywood strip, she diligently does her homework after each trick and (yes) even...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Angelic Trash | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...slalom finish by Phil and Steve Mahre in the final Olympic performances of their careers. It had been a wild week of ski racing, and maybe it was those crazy ski suits that gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk and down the arms. Even as the Mahres did their twin-brother act one more time, they seemed to symbolize a passing of the old order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts." Robert Frost, Hart Crane and John Dos Passes are only a few of the competing ghosts. By now live writers are so thick on the ground that the pink stucco Monroe County Public Library publishes a pamphlet: Key West: Writers in Residence (latest announced total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Key West: The Writer as a Star | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Jacket Missing: A pale pink down jacket valued at $160, was reported taken from the Blodgett Pool locker room floor between 4 and 5 p.m. last Saturday...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from the presidential Pink House, and then dispersed for a week. But they would not go away. In many of the photographs the children posed formally, in dresses and coats and ties. In several, they looked saucy before the camera. That was in better days, before the subjects came to be counted among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Things That Do Not Disappear | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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