Word: puce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Donna Shalalas of the world, the Alexis Hermans and the Janet Renos, the admirable career women of the 1970s ideal. But alone in a hotel room, with a trooper as emissary, it is the Paulas of the world he wants to see, with the permed hair and the puce lipstick and the long, blood-red nails--the gals with that come-hither look. There are things we probably shouldn't know about a President, but this isn't one of them...
...life. How about the UPS strike? Yes, of course, a responsible citizen is concerned with analyzing the role played by part-time jobs in the American economy, but perhaps not as concerned as he is with whether or not those two polo shirts from the catalog company--one in puce, one in taupe--will arrive in time for the most important weekend of the summer...