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...Orleans. Office, as the frontispiece, is the only painting in the book to be reproduced in color. Merchants (visible in full color at the Fogg), like the other well-chosen and well-placed illustrations, is only a small black-and-white reproduction. The loss of color is lamentable--Dancers, Pink and Green loses its panache in gray--but the lack of clarity in the reproductions is more worrisome. Benfey often refers to minute details, such as an arm painted over but still visible, but even much squinting may fail to reveal the detail in the reproduction...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Impressionism in the Big Easy: A Meeting of Minds in New Orleans | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...vestiges of the pre-perestroika era remained on Saturday. Upon check-in, you were issued an index card that was either pink and read EXAM in Magic Marker or was purple and tagged COLLECTION. Then, despite the fact that the place was crawling with agents, you were directed to wait your turn in a row of empty chairs. When your name was called, you were passed through a metal detector and ferried upstairs to an undecorated 6-by-6 cubicle. There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE WORK FOR YOU! | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Autumn is the season of falling leaves and drippy noses. A trip to CVS promises only cough drops, KleenexTM and horrible pink syrups. If bubblegum-tasting syrup does not sound delicious make sure to check out Harnett's first...

Author: By Alexandra B. Haggiag, | Title: Absolutely No Preservatives | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...only person you knew who could talk on the phone, blow big, pink bubblegum bubbles, do her homework, watch TV and cook your dinner. She was the babysitter. She was the ultimate teenager. She was the first full-time devotee of MTV. The babysitter encapsulated everything every pre-adolescent girl aspired to be. She studied big-kid subjects like foreign languages and textbook math. She was allowed to wear make-up--glossy pink lip gloss, mascara and blue eyeshadow that reached her eyebrows. Somehow her mother allowed her to have stretch jeans and stilletto heels worn with scrunch socks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: a tribute to the '80s Babysitter... | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...become so involved in the progress of this plucky litter of prematures since their birth Wednesday that the loss of one of their number would feel like a grief on the scale of Diana. Not to fear, however ? neonatologist Dr. Robert Shaw pronounced Bobbi McCaughey's brood "warm, pink and comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Baby Boomers | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

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