Word: pinks
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Every picture in the Jerusalem exhibition tells of avarice and loss. Not all Nazis were squeamish about possessing what the party characterized as decadent 20th century art. A work by Henri Matisse, Landscape, the Pink Wall, which had vanished during the war, was later found sealed inside a wall in the house of an SS officer, Kurt Gerstein, who committed suicide after Germany's surrender. Gerstein was in charge of delivering poisonous gas to the death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites...
...only things making Organic Chemistry students sick this semester—one premed sophomore was recently diagnosed with a case of conjunctivitis that he blames on goggles he wore during lab. “That was a damper big time,” complains the pink-eyed Daniel E. Farrell ’10. “I couldn’t go near my girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.” All chemistry labs require students to wear goggles, a safety regulation mandated by the American Chemical Society—but Farrell isn?...
...money they're payin' me." There's plenty of money lavished on the production too: $10 million (as she mentions three or four times during the evening), and it boasts some luscious videographic effects. Oh, and Midler does make an appearance wreathed in a 3200-lb. headdress of pink feathers. But Showgirl, written by Eric Kornfeld and Bruce Vilanch, and choreographed by Toni Basil, keeps its focus on the star. It's a big satin pillow for her outsize talents to cuddle...
...donkey. In THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON, the 62-year-old chantootsie often declares that she's exhausted, yet in her sharp 90-min. act, she seems ageless and indefatigable--strutting, singing, hopping around in a fish tail, cavorting under a 3,200-lb. (1,450 kg) headdress of pink feathers. Showgirl, a slick $10 million production, replaces Cline Dion's elephantine extravaganza with the unique Midler mix: sass, heart and a show-biz salesmanship that's been irresistible since her early days as an icon for gay men only. "Thirty years ago, my audiences were on drugs...
...Fifteen Minutes story, "Women's Hockey Team Pretty in Pink" misstated the college at which Claudia Asano coaches. She serves as head coach of Union College, not the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Harvard women's hockey team played both teams the same weekend...