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...pink flowers illuminate the De Luxe Antique and Contemporary. A few blocks away, a ruby red couple sizzles in a clothing-store window. And across the street, Rocket Video glows brightly. This is Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, and so striking are the electric patterns stitched across the night that passing cars slow down for a better view. The attraction? Nifty new neon signs...
...Smithsonian Institution, has been touring the country for 21 months, and a book with the same title by the show's curator, Design Writer Michael Webb, has gone to a second printing. At the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, after a boardroom battle over its appropriateness, a pink neon street sign was installed in place of the museum's Plexiglas one. "After all," says Board President Helyn Goldenberg, "we are a contemporary institution...
...suicides. Young people seem to be obsessed with not liking themselves. I don't think that what I'm trying to say is hard to understand. I don't go overboard really in any direction. I don't shave the side of my head. My hair is not pink. I don't feel that I'm putting on a costume. It's part of my personality and the mood that I'm in. Also I think that for the last ten or 20 years, that part of a woman has been suppressed. There has been the feeling that...
Since 1972, the vineyards have been attracting baby boomers with the so- called blush wines. Made from such red grapes as Zinfandel or Pinot Noir, this wine is kept a pale salmon-pink by removing the skins, pulp and seeds from the juice before they darken the liquid. The result: a wine that tastes like a white and lacks the flowery bouquet of a rose. The Wine Growers of California are negotiating with Julia Child to tout their vintages on TV ads come September. Says William Young, western division president of D'Arcy MacManus Masius, the Wine Growers' advertising firm...
...last week, Physicist Don Lind could not contain his wonder. "The streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...