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...check whether life processes were indeed occurring above the earth, he used a chemical called TTC, which changes rapidly from pale yellow to pink when attacked by the enzymes produced in active, living cells. If spores and other dormant forms of life were the only inhabitants of clouds, as most scientists have assumed, they would not become active and respond to the test for at least an hour. But when Parker collected airborne and presumably dormant samples of bacteria, algae and fungi and doused them with TTC, the chemical began turning pink in only 15 to 20 minutes the time...
Another girl, Janice, arrived and was let through almost immediately, if only for a few seconds, for she bore gifts. Janice took in a poster for Bobby, which, she said, was just a "drawing" of him. Janice came back a few moments later with a letter in a pink envelope. She wasn't talking about the contents...
...Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn in the new sculpture gallery, the completion of which was the occasion for the party. Through the glass wall of his house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector, scans his horizon with pleasure as if the sunset, too, were a commissioned work. The inauguration of his own special Xanadu is nearly over...
PASSING by the office of University Cinema Associates at 930 Massachusetts Avenue, one notices that the picture window of their second floor office has been broken; perhaps the product of a rock thrown by an angry radical. The broken part of the window is patched up with a pink valentine on which is scrawled the single word "Please...
...Interim, choreographed by a member of the company, Bill Evans, colorfully mixes orange and pink tights with electronic music. It's not quite as dynamic as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, but the harmony of modern dance and electronic music works as effectively. Evans creates many beautiful movements-girls suddenly atop the men's shoulders or a wave of the hand that stops abruptly in a right angle. Some patterns, though not innovative, are beautifully reminiscent of Martha Graham's company exercising in the film The Dancer's World...