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...Britain lost its memory? Last week an intruder wearing a pink ball gown and fake beard and calling himself Osama bin Laden managed to gate-crash Prince William's 21st-birthday bash at Windsor Castle. Aspiring comedian Aaron Barschak managed to kiss the Prince on both cheeks and head for the bar before being nabbed by police. Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered an urgent inquiry into the "appalling breach" in security; Britons were aghast. But the real wonder is why anyone was surprised at all. Despite the millions of dollars a year British taxpayers pay to protect the royals, such...
...opposite (green-red, turquoise-orange) to make hallucinatory hues. In Veld (1971), diagonal stripes in vivid green contain narrow stripes of white, bordered by infinitesimal lines of red - but you could swear the white was yellow. From jazzy stripes she moved on to paler, pastel ripples. Undulations of pink, lilac, jade and ochre make Song of Orpheus 5 (1978) positively pretty, even gentle. Inspired by a visit to Egypt in the late '70s, she returned to stripes. In works like Après Midi (1981), she recreated the palette of ancient tombs: terra-cotta, malachite, turquoise, ochre. Her next move...
...case of Maneater, it is safe--and even perhaps encouraged--to judge the book by its bubble-gum-pink cover. The funny, crude and knowing novel follows the antics of Clarissa Alpert, who is untroubled that she possesses no talents, job or interests but a little concerned that she has yet to acquire a husband. "Her timeline was clear: she would be 29 (32) in November; she and her lucky husband would have two children within four years; she'd be divorced by 40 and still hot (thanks to Dr. Drew Franklin of the Beverly Hills Triangle) and living...
...garish palaces? that once served as the Iraqi command centers.? Last month the head of the U.S.'s postwar administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, delivered the? most painful blow, dissolving Iraq's armed forces and putting 400,000 soldiers? out of work without so much as a pink slip...
Imagining a wicked jibe from Portman, a small, soft-spoken student in thong sandals and bright-pink toenail polish, is difficult...