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...What was the color of the magic pencil in The Pink Motel...
...television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length nightie with a pair of shocking-pink hands appliqueed on the breasts. Together they begin just the kind of odd courtship one would expect of two such urban animals. They claw, they scratch, they separate, they make up. Both are elaborately cloaked with pretense: Felix as the unpublished author, Doris as the actress-hooker...
...most poignant aspect of the book is the shadow that the Kennedy family, particularly Jackie, cast over the Johnsons. Lady Bird admired Jackie's courage and beauty, and her account of Jackie's first hours of widowhood, with its image of her pink suit over the body like flowers over a grave, is the best that has been written. But by never entering the Johnsons' White House, Mrs. Kennedy maintained a ghostly occupancy that lifted only when she ran off with Aristotle Onassis. In a rare bitter passage, Lady Bird writes that L.B.J. might better have replaced...
...done. Drawn in a mock-fumbly, endearing line, hooded Klansmen, looking like half-inflated dirigibles, sit plotting together in cheap hotel rooms, or ride in a jalopy through city streets, or, cigar in fist, survey piles of bodies. Sometimes they are seen in confabulation with a bald, pink-necked Southern sheriff. Now and then a hand, suggestive of God's accusing finger, pops out of the pink sky to stop them dead in their tracks...
...lesbian attendant, or shrieking for fine strawberries, or flamboyantly embracing the quest for money, Lansbury brings to her part the exaggerated theatricality which came off so well in Prince's Mame. After announcing her engagement to Conrad, she takes her fat daughter aside and says: "I was thinking of pink for the bridesmaids, but really, my dear, you do discourage...