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...menu that includes tuna tartar with anchovy essence ($19), poached salmon belly with frothed milk ($23) and caviar with hard-poached eggs ($98). Upon checking into the Beverly Hills Hotel, a dog is met by a greeter who escorts him to his room, where he'll find a pink doggie bed, pink tennis balls and a biscuit jar filled with bone-shape cookies with the dog's name (given at the time of the reservation) written in pink icing, all for a flat fee of $250 a stay...
...Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 book about a U.S. controlled by Fundamentalist Christians. Here she sticks closely to the rules of dystopian writing. Civilization has succumbed to a calamity, in this case brought on by heedless bioengineering, the kind that sets loose viruses that melt down their victims like "pink sorbet on a barbecue." Then again, the world was asking for it, what with the webcast suicides, the rampant porn and the chickens altered genetically to consist of nothing but a mouth and a multitude of (barely) edible breasts. As for the social arrangements, the precatastrophe élite lived...
...There's also a pint-size replica in his yard of the pink sandstone splendor of Banteay Srei, and Dy has begun work on his own version of the multi-faced towers of Bayon. But it's his Angkor Wat that takes center stage, drawing the most oohs and aahs from the trickle of visitors who each fork out $1 for a look...
...those publicity campaigns that have focused attention on breast cancer may be part of the problem. The pink ribbons, the docudramas and the races for a cure have inadvertently left women with the impression that breast cancer is the only thing they need be worried about. So when public-health officials at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) decided to spread the word about women's risk of heart disease with a campaign called Heart Truth, they took a page from the cancer advocates' manual, designed their own lapel pin--in the shape of a bright red dress...
This time of year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...