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...never understood this delusion of hers, but I'd drag her to parties anyway. And she would torture herself beforehand into the Look, a wasp-haired caricature, binding her curls tightly in a turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed though, that I could hurt, too. She wanted...
...frilly pink motif, TV set for watching soap operas, shoebox filled with eye makeup, copies of Seventeen magazine...
...deputy sheriffs on the scene were kept busy. Although more than 600,000 people poured into the area before the festival ended, Watkins Glen proved by and large a very orderly, even sedate trip. There was little nudity and few medevacs. Campers gave wooded areas "street" names like Big Pink Lane and Hippie Highway. The show's promoters, after inundating newspapers and radio stations with advance publicity; announced days before the opening that the event was sold out. The unintended result was that even more people were attracted. "Woodstock was different," explained the festival's stage manager, Rock...
...technique on his own teeth. Using a regular child's toothbrush, he began brushing vigorously, trying to remove every trace of a sweet red wafer handed him a moment before by the technician. "It tastes like candy!" he yelled to a screaming crowd of balloon-carrying children, as pink foam from the brushing streamed over his sunburned chest...
Though some traffic between the two houses exists on this level, most of it runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks...