Word: pinks
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...Calixto comes out to greet you, pink shirt fastened up to his chin, sombrero pushed back over his white hair, eyes watery and honored guest, friend, to our humble town. Pardon me, forgive me--I cannot express myself well--we are humble. But you are welcome. We are glad that you have come to visit with us." He pumps his right hand in the air, accentuating his oratory with a dwarfed index finger, injured in the Revolution...
...offer himself to the CIA, but it was 1953, the McCarthy era, and after one look at his record, "the guy at the CIA laughed and told me to get the hell out of there." The union he had joined as a merchant-marine cook, it seems, was considered "pink," and then there was that trip to Communist Yugoslavia...
...Paris. Born in Rome, "Schiap" became a French citizen in 1927 and began her career in Paris by designing sweaters featuring bold peasant motifs. From her salon beside the Ritz, she scored many fashion firsts, among them tailored evening jackets, the use of synthetic fabrics and the color, shocking pink. Schiaparelli closed her couture house-where her designs had been sold for as much as $5,000-in 1954, and later reappeared in the spotlight as the grandmother of Celebrities Marisa and Berry Berenson...
Onstage, with her long arms and legs embracing the cello, her straw-colored hair falling over her shoulders, and her pink-cheeked English face radiating health and happiness, she looked a bit like Alice in Wonderland grown to womanhood. That was one reason why Jacqueline du Pré emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint...
...others it's a trip back to when they dressed like that. A girl goes and finds an old gray skirt with pink poodles on it or puts her hair like she used to put it. It's the whole nostalgia trip--that's why it's an event, because people want to become part of this for that night...