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...high-wheeled horse-drawn calesas of old Manila, with their tasseled canopies and courtly cocheros, have given way to the ubiquitous Jeepney, a freelance taxicab that typically sports a high-gloss enamel finish in rainbow hues, Playboy-bunny mudguards, pink-fringed roof, and a sign that reads "God Is My Copilot." Crammed with such passengers as pigs, chickens, guitarists and call girls, and plagued with an absence of brakes and springs, the Jeepney needs celestial guidance...
...Charles F. Murphy Jr. wore her blue-plaid Dior-New York pants suit to a women's luncheon, found she felt "quite chic and elegant." Pamela Tiffin, the bitch in Dinner at Eight, showed up at Manhattan's Ground Floor restaurant wearing her beige, green and pink Tiziani suit. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, entertains in a shocking pink Adele Simpson suit. Jacqueline Kennedy has ordered a beige-and-white wool suit from Valentino; Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chairman William S. Paley, has ordered hers in black velvet...
...meticulous method in Francis Vollmer's madness, there is not nearly enough madness in the narrative methods of Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate). What the author intends is a black comedy on the peril of an obsessive delusion; what he achieves is a hybrid between bedroom-comedy pink and olive-drab boredom...
...only grows the wheat that feeds the world, but also mines the potash that grows the wheat that feeds the world. At Esterhazy, the 3,200-ft.-deep corridors of a new $60 million International Minerals & Chemical Corp. mine glow in strobe lights, as drilling machines shear out the pink ore for export to Europe and Asia. Eleven more potash mines are in prospect...
...things go too far. Roberts has a penchant for jarring a hideous orange and a vile pink together. Everywhere. Orange chairs with pink seats. Pink and orange wall patterns. It's painful...