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...potted plant for over a decade at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York under the guidance of Japanese genetic scientist Sadeo Ichikawa, Ramie Arian, a spokesman for the Creative Gifts Corporation said. "If nuclear radiation is in the air, the plant changes colors from its natural blue to pink. This discovery is a potential lifesaver," Arian added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift Plant Detects Nuclear Radiation | 4/1/1981 | See Source »

...star-shock never subsided. I could hardly swallow, let alone speak, the first time I had dinner with a very friendly red-suspendered Dan Rather. On the other hand, I was not all that surprised when I bumped into Andy Rooney one day and found him sporting a pink shower cap with his suit...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: A Summer With Walter and Dan | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...corner of Bow and Plymption Sts., there's Harvard Pizza, with its "Help Wanted Experience" sign scrawled on a piece of cardboard in the window. Around the corner, on Mt. Auburn St., Cahaly's and Tommy's Lunch use pink neon to advertise ice cream, and hot pastromi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Finds Niche in Square | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

...Westchester department of corrections complex in Valhalla, N.Y. As she arrived last week a few of the prison's 68 female inmates shouted at her, "You, Jean Harris, you're coming to join us!" Harris was led to her own 5-ft. by 7-ft. pink room, out of sight from most of the other inmates. A guard explained, "We don't want anyone to assault her." Harris' closest neighbor is a frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial for second-degree murder, charged with shooting her 68-year-old husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

ACTING. DIRECTING, and everything ineffable slides into place in this production; it is the visual and tangible that is out of place. The costumes immediately jar the senses: lots of lavendar, orange, turquoise and pink; big ribbons on sleeves, cuffs and collars; droopy ruffles, fringe, textured velvet and clunky platform shoes on all the men. Of course, 300 years ago, people dressed with excessive ornamentation by today's standard, but the costumes, far from evoking the period, resemble ancient clown suits. They result from a mistaken conception of Moliere's time. Perhaps designer Dru Minton Clark simply concurs with what...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

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