Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Versace relished the scene he helped create. "He wanted to be where the buzz was," says Bowles, a visitor to Casa Casuarina. "He loved the excitement." Versace saw Miami Beach, where he spent, on and off, a number of months a year, as a frothy pink-drink antidote to his life in Italy, where he divided his time between his three-story 17th century palazzo in Milan and a 17-room villa on Lake Como. "For reading Proust I have my house on Lake Como," he said in 1993. "Here, in Miami Beach, I don't want another monastery...
...fish in the ocean as they swim to Canada. The bold move drew fire from the U.S. State Department and Alaskan fishermen, who claim they're not hogging the premier salmon, called sockeye, but are abiding by the fishing treaty by going after the more common and less valuable pink salmon. Local businesses weren't too happy with the stunt, either. They claim it will keep vacationers from the area, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars annually. But the fishermen continue to stand firm, claiming that shady U.S. fishing practices could hurt everyone if they continue...
Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...
Jealous is a coming-of-age story told by Larry, a Montana boy who leaves his father's house near the Teton River to live with his mother in Seattle. On the road with his flirty aunt in her pink Cadillac, Larry seems a bit like Huck Finn rafting to new adventures. But Doris is no runaway Jim. Free in body and spirit, she drinks while driving, talks to dangerous characters in strange bars and dispenses seasoned opinions that underscore the title of the book. On why Larry's mom and dad separated: "They know too much about each other...
ROOTS U.N. ambassador and former New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson, a state booster, displays Three Eggs in Pink Dish by Georgia O'Keeffe, a longtime New Mexico resident...