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Bridget would come scurrying out with a cup in her hand, a big florid woman in a faded pink wrapper. She sassed right back: "Eh, Tonio, finish yer yellin". Fine times when a body can't 'ave a cuppa tay in peace an' quiet. She wouldn't'a minded to wait for a bit: would yer, love...
...born of the peasant blouses still available in the bazaars of Europe. If that isn't enough to give the nonpregnant pause, two young Manhattan women have designed and are selling the Pregnancy Puff-an egg-shaped, beige satin pillow that ties on round the middle with pink and blue satin ribbons. It has just one function: worn under clothing, it makes a woman look pregnant...
Someone gave him a derby, and he mugged with it, a finger held under his nose doing service for the famed mustache. Congresswoman Bella Abzug leaned over his table, clutching her floppy pink hat. "The audience, the audience!" he exclaimed to her. "Everybody was in the audience!" Actor Zero Mostel loomed up and kissed him from the depths of an enormous beard, Actress Claire Bloom, one of his leading ladies (Limelight, 1952), appeared at the table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with...
...world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look at me! I'm different! I used to be an asshole, I'm not an asshole anymore!" But Pavlo abandons himself totally and blindly to the military ethic that has finally given...
...single woman wearing a skirt or a dress. In Peking and Shanghai department stores, though, there was a wide array of skin creams at toiletries counters. At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks - in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange - that were on display. She tittered and said that they were for export. Later, a male member of the exhibit's revolutionary committee explained that "Chinese girls like natural beauty...