Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member U.S. sales force, must wear suits and ties when meeting prospective customers, although their shirts no longer must be white. Still, a neat and conservative appearance remains the IBM style. "I don't think I've ever seen an IBMer in a pink shirt or an outlandish tie," says Joseph Levy, a vice president for International Data, a Massachusetts-based computer market-research firm. The THINK signs have largely vanished, but the old admonition remains the title of the company's employee magazine...
...Hong Kong (1236 Mass Ave): Odds are that you have heard of the Kong. If you haven't, you soon will--and odds are even higher that by the end of the summer you will have sampled the Kong's notorious. Scorpion Bowl Droves flock to the garish pink building every day of the week except Monday, when it's closed. The first floor is primarily Chinese food and the second is a bar (read: chaos) with masses of students from all over Boston edging for an open space in which to sip their Bowl with 10 ounces of liquor...
...Corn points out, the eroticism that might have been an attribute of his figures is transferred entirely to the landscape they inhabit. Wood's people are nearly always emblems of either innocence or rectitude: pink and doll-like when they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt...
...expression. It is a temptation that should be resisted. The vows that couples devise are, with some exceptions, never as moving to the guests as they are to the couple. Too often the phrases, words overblown and intimate and yearning all at once, go floating plumply around the altar, pink dreams of the ineffable. Friends and family lean forward in their pews. The clergyperson beams inscrutably, abetting the thing, but keeping counsel. The guests are both fascinated and faintly appalled to be privy to such intense and theatrical whisperings. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once held press conferences while lying...
...strides, wearing golf shirt and cardigan, wildly checked pink and green slacks and white lounging loafers. Forget the puffy, propped-up television image. On the eve of his 80th birthday, Hope looks fabulous. The hair that on his specials can appear fake is a rusty auburn on top and full and white on the sides. "It's thinning," says Hope, smoothing it back, "but it's all mine. I got a hair guy who tints it a bit for television. Otherwise the lights shine right through it. This fellow has a way of pushing it forward to give...