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...spent $50,000 on 50 Lanvin-designed uniforms for the royal court, each requiring one mile of gold thread. As for taste, even the Empress Farah said in an unguarded moment, "There have been a lot of mistakes and lapses" -one of which might have been the choice of pink roses and cigars for signs on rest-room doors. Many Iranians also resented that the extravaganza evolved from a festival of their national culture into a celebration of the monarchy. "This was the Shah's ego coming in," said a Western diplomat. "He is idealistic and patriotic...
When an automaker recalls cars so that dangerous defects can be corrected free of charge, not everybody connected with the company loses money. "The average dealer is tickled pink by recalls," says Douglas Toms, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Once the defective car gets into the shop, there's a lot of other maintenance that's usually done. It's also an opportunity to sell new cars...
...Peace in Peking, greeting a visiting dignitary. Last week, after yet another tantalizing absence, Mao was back again, this time to welcome Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie to Peking. As one of the 27 aides who accompanied the Lion of Judah told it, the Chairman seemed in the pink. Mao "was smiling and waved his arms to greet his royal visitor," he reported. As the two leaders began their private 105-minute talk, Mao was "in a very good mood, ready to make jokes...
...piece entitled "Footnotes". The music by Eugene Lester moves from an enveloping gossip to bells chiming and thinking, then thickens again into a closing smog of gossip. This interim airiness and freshness duplicate the playful mood of New York artist Robert Natkin's hinged screens of pink squiggles...
Colors vibrate, as blue and orange miniskirted girls are exposed to join pink-leotarded males. From behind-the-fence gossiping, the dancers move into frolicking pas de deuxs, jealous love spats and seductions, and oblivious chasings of unreachable flying objects...