Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who loved the movies (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully sat through several modeling sessions while the doll was fashioned. The first versions of the doll did not measure up to the standards of Mother Teri Shields, 48, who rejected...
...shrouded in obscurity: Kelly refuses to divulge the secret. Of the many "creation myths," though, Benji N. Fisher '85 offers the most probable explanation: "In Princeton about 30 years ago. David Kelly and Michael Spivak (author of several math textbooks) were drinking buddies, and instead of seeing pink elephants, they saw yellow pigs...
Although Kelly insists the Yellow Pig is not a cult, a lot of Hampshirites act as if it were. Over the years, various "counter-cults" have developed: Steve Maurer, who taught at Hampshire for two years, introduced the Yellow Pig's antithesis--the Pink Pig, which is closely associated with the number 23, and produced evidence proving the ascendancy of 23 over 17. (Adherents to the Yellow Pig consider 23 the "ickiest" number of them all.) For a while, Pink Pig t-shirts began to appear, but the era of the interloper, though still remembered, was short-lived...
...sect tried to deal with the situation diplomatically by creating the Peace Pig, which has yellow and pink stripes and is linked to the number 20--the average of 17 and 23. Shorter fads were green pigs (the number 6) and blue pigs (the number...
...Gigantic pink plastic bungs, small smoking stones" which look like deformed chestnuts. brutal-looking "power hitters" to help a smoker quickly inhale larger amounts of that illegal smoke--all must go, according to a new state Law passed this winter...