Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circle of flattering pink mirrors catches multiple reflections of the plaster statue of Diana. On the dusty-rose settee, two elderly ladies in Orion lace sweaters tell each other racist jokes and giggle. The attendant, who is black, has just unwrapped twelve rolls of toilet paper and is now dragging two huge bags of trash out the door. She passes an aghast English-speaking European tourist, who apparently expected Las Vegas to be more in the style of James Bond at Monte Carlo...
...according to plan, his campaign will be full of presidential grandeur. Reagan just may be the most naturally and skillfully exuberant presidential campaigner of this century. When he addressed 20,000 red-hot devotees in Austin a few weeks ago, the audience hollered and clapped; Reagan's energy level rose in response; the crowd grew more frenzied in turn. "He loved it,"says one campaign aide. "Absolutely loved...
...looked like a clumsy fledgling. On his third effort he cleared it by a whisker, but that was as high as he went. Under the point system, each inch in the vault is worth about 6 points, making it a disproportionately weighted event. So with Hingsen grounded, Thompson rose for the kill. When he cleared 16 ft. 4¾ in., he delightedly executed a back flip on the pink landing pad. No points were awarded for the extracurricular flip, but Thompson landed with a cushy lead of 152 points...
...years Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium has attracted huge crowds for New Year's Day gridiron clashes between the likes of Ohio State and Southern Cal. But in the eyes of most of the world, real football came to the Rose Bowl last week, when Olympic soccer teams took the field. A throng of more than 100,000, the largest audience ever for a soccer game in the U.S., gathered to watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds...
...bleachers rose up on either side of the pool on a forest of slender poles. Two young attendants were on station to keep people from passing under. "You haven't seen a scuba diver come through here?" I asked. It was a few days before the diving competition. The attendants looked bewildered. "Could you let me know if you see one?" I asked...