The curved glass had a magnifying effect, like a lens: inside, the pale-pink pill was disintegrating as if giving birth to a galaxy or the universe.

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Chunky yellow teeth they were, and the gums pale pink.

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Gettle likes a 1950s palette, so she chose robin's-egg-blue paint for the main hallway, pale yellow for the kitchen and pink in the dining room.

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As Maria weaves her stories together in the encroaching dusk, the sky turns to pale pink and then becomes streaked with a vermilion red.

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Perennial fashion favorite Sarah Jessica Parker floated down the 2003 Emmy Awards red carpet in a pale pink Chanel Couture gown, our No. 9 pick.

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Their pale-pink home has tulips sprouting in the front yard next to an Ohio State University yard sign.

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The sky turns pink, peach and apricot, shading into pale Prussian grey.

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For more colorful personalities, Omega also presented designs with dials in pale pink and blue mother-of-pearl, machine-engraved with the swirling supernova pattern.

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