Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time when hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting pink slips, it's hard to feel much sympathy for someone walking away with a six- or seven-figure severance package. But at least the assembly-line worker usually gets a few weeks', or at least days', notice; NBA coaches are gone in an instant...
...parade solely dedicated to celebrating queer identity. "We came out today to show the world that people in the queer community are normal people too," said Ariel Wong, a 21-year-old student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University who wore a rainbow Afro wig and distributed stickers with pink hearts on them. The parade was co-organized by Rainbow of Hong Kong, Midnight Blue, Social Movement Resource Centre and the Women Coalition, with support from groups working on myriad issues, including civil rights, HIV/AIDS education and transgender awareness. It represented progress for China's gay community, marking the first...
...Need Those Fingers for Crossing,” possibly the tightest and most affecting song the band has yet composed, is about bulimia. When Gareth Campesinos! sings “I can taste the blood on your lips and on your tongue / I can see your teeth turn pink / Your gums fade to white,” it is hard to believe that this band was originally labelled as twee. Likewise, “Miserabilia” is a harrowing tale of failed love affairs and more eating disorders (“I’ve spent too much time...
...Simonon smashing his bass guitar on the cover of “London Calling.” They’re a hardrocking punk band. It was an odd choice, then, to make this band’s autobiography, “The Clash,” a big pink book. But maybe it’s appropriate. The Clash, after all, were a band that refused to bow to anyone’s expectations about how they should look, act, or sound, and yet much of their legend has been colored by words written by others. Perhaps the pink...
...Obama's senior aide, David Axelrod, wore earth tones, a tweed coat and no tie, while his campaign manager, David Plouffe, arrived in a proper dark suit with a glittering pink tie. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, brought a knit blue tie (and wry sarcasm), while his chief pollster, Bill McInturff, sat beside Davis in a white shirt with an open collar. "Here we are in the year that we elected the first African-American President, and I get to share the stage with four white guys," joked the moderator, Gwen Ifill, a correspondent for PBS who was still...