Pink and Orange Plastic Rain Pink and Orange Rain Really, pink and orange plastic rain was falling from the ceiling, as you can see. At the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the main lobby area is filled marble floor to rotunda ceiling—it was once the Allegheny City Post Office and is built on a grand Victorian scale—with pink and orange plastic rain, a welcome feast for the eyes on a gray winter day and providing a great contrast with the Corinthian columns and neo-classic ceiling. But the plastic rain also reminds me in a rather obtuse way of an assignment in a linguistics class I took in college. A paragraph was written in phonetic pronounciation, and we had to translate it back to regular English. The paragraph was from a review of an art exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art which featured “strips ov plas’tik rayn”, though I think they were blue in the paragraph. I don’t know why I remember that assignment, or why fragments of memory float around and some stay and some fade or come back later, but three decades have passed since that assignment, and on a meeting with a customer whose office is at the Children’s Museum I am reminded of it when I see the plastic rain. Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related Post navigation Had Enough Snow?Why They Call Them “Star”lings 0 Comments Cracking images Loading... Reply Thanks! I love your British adjective! I’m going to have to steal that. The world is a fascinating and beautiful place to look at. Loading... Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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