Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would not condone any violence. But we can't stand by the elbow of every angler to control him." Tombleson's alarm was echoed by Don Thompson, director of the Salmon and Trout Association, who says of his fellow fishermen, "These are not old codgers in pink coats riding on horses. These are young, active, fit people and they're not going to stand for being pushed around...
When she was violently excited I could breathe in the smell of that plant... what is its name? ... one of the pea family, with pink flowers ... that blondes give out when they sweat." For the child's seducer, even the surrounding countryside seems suffused with his desire: "I was listening to the noise of the wind which ... was sobbing under the doors and bringing us through the open windows-it was very mild-a poignant smell from the terrace outside-the smell of dampness before rain, of flowers when the season of flowers is over...
...option of wrapping some other campus building, and after deliberating awhile Christo chooses the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall. The next day he reveals that the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department has offered him a visiting professorship in return for swathing Gund Hall in phosphoreseent pink nylon...
...Rather than bringing glossy sex to the pages of America's coffee-table literature, the author claims Playboy helped legitimize the growing movement away from conformity and toward a new, personally materialistic prototype. Ehrenreich describes "the ultimately sophisticated charge against Playboy: it wasn't really 'sexy'." She describes the "pink-checked young Playmates whose every pore and drop of perspiration had been air-brushed out of existence. Hefner was 'puritanical' after all..." Certainly the centerfolds gave men something to look at, but it was the advertisements in the magazine--every new male status symbol from sports cars to cologne--that...
...black (death). As Tony vaults up the ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The mansion of Tony's dreams boasts an Olympic-size bathtub; in the foyer, statues of the Three Graces support a huge gold globe bearing the legend THE WORLD is YOURS...