Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gilbert Adrian, who was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for 15 years and now has become simply Adrian, opened his divine new pink and blue couturier's salon in Beverly Hills last week at about the time that fighting men of the United Nations were raiding Dieppe...
...creation named "Trim Little Suit" brought ecstatic applause as the models began parading across the pink carpet, posturing on a raised dais. Adrian's price: $225. Another, "It's Not True" ($210) had a long black skirt and a transparent lace front. "Black Glamour" ($395) was a study in black seductiveness for evening. Adrian showed 60 of his creations: "Suit with Red Excitement," "Black Dress with Two Roses," "Dinner with a Dash of Gold," "Commando," "For a Visit to the Camp," "When He's Home," "Peace and Quiet," "Where's the U.S.O...
...shop Adrian opened last week is done in two colors, a greyish blue-green and a greyish shell pink. Adrian's office is in blue-green, even the radio and cigaret stand. In the custom room, next to his office, the drapes are hand-woven of capeskin, suede and gold metallic strands, and hang from ceiling to floor. In the retail room the drapes also stretch from ceiling to floor, but here they are of cheap cotton duck...
Next day Big Jim Farley, his genial, pink face solemn with the importance of the moment, called the press in to bear witness to a prophecy not lightly made...
...stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like the worn, patient faces of peasants...