Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne. From the moment the curtain rose on Hockney's version of an early Italian Renaissance landscape, complete with a dragon quoted from Uccello, the audience was saturated in color: deep purples of the night sky, the green and pink of formal gardens in Sarastro's domain on the yellow Nilotic sands, blue cataracts and blazing gold art deco sunbursts...
...felt like a family," reporter after reporter said upon leaving the building that final day. As they trudged out, a van pulled up from the city's Pink Palace Museum and took away a Press-Scimitar vending machine with a truly final edition in the window. "We feel like vultures," said Curator Ronald Craw ford Brister. "People hate to see us coming." He noted that when the Firestone plant closed earlier this year, he had had to drop by and pick up the first tire produced there, in 1937, as well as the last tread off the assembly line...
...White suggests. Is he serious? A little. The Official Lawyer's Handbook (Simon & Schuster; $5.95), published this month, is a book of cutting humor that purports to "tell all" about law schools and law firms in the same way that The Official Preppy Handbook tells all about pink and green alligators...
...there a less "feminine" woman artist of her generation? Probably not. Even Krasner's favorite pink, a domineering fuchsia that raps hotly on the eyeball at 50 paces, is aggressive, confrontational; and when her line evokes eros, its grace is modified by a rough, improvisatory movement, a distrust of quick visual acceptance. Sometimes, as in Green Fuse, 1968, or Rising Green, 1972, she refers to the palm-court, winter-garden atmosphere of late Matisse; yet the shapes are too cutting to stand as undiluted emblems of luxury. Critical of the world, she is just as hard on herself, harder...
...students crowding House common rooms and the Union's parior room to watch the story of Toby and her three roommates unfold were quick to notice the discrepancies between life in her Holworthy Hall--which sported pink wallpaper--and life in the real college...