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...performance is scripted (very scripted, actually). It is also rehearsed (very rehearsed, actually), down to the last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...

Author: By Richard J. Howells, | Title: Mr. Manners | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...Alice, who has not only a husband but also a hospital job in both ports, is also the mother of three. Simon (Rachid Ferrauche), her Parisian 10-year-old by Philippe, is not only quite pale but also slightly pink, and already attending socialist rallies and talking proletariat revolution. With Vincent, in the more sedate suburbs, she has a boy and a girl who are bratty in a more usually puerile sense...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...Monsieur! Hoo there! Monsieur!" A young cheese-girl, dressed in pink, is standing in front of him while he is occupied with his notebook...in the line behind him everyone is observing his incongruous behavior, heads are being shaken with those half-ironic, half-exasperated looks with which the inhabitants of big cities consider the ever-increasing number of the mentally retarded wandering about the streets...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Looking for Mr. Palomar | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard JV football team turned the Big Green into the Bright Pink by drubbing Dartmouth in the league opener, 27-7, yesterday at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson JV Stops Dartmouth | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

Walsh said the University couldn't find pink and green bricks that would withstand the harsh Cambridge winters...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Stirling's Sackler: Worth Weight in Gold? | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

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