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...unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake’s innocent “come-hither” gaze and her prominent cleavage combine with the child-like sweetness of the strawberry-ice-cream-cone-turned-sex-organ to create an image that, while explicitly sexual, remains frustratingly ambivalent??caught somewhere within the fantasy of defiling virginity, the allure of girl-on-girl action, and the magnetism of the sexually mature woman...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...called the athletic department “ambivalent?? to success in the bigger sports during his time there...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Program in Transition | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...time, Linos was something of an oddity at Harvard: “Many faculty were ambivalent??or simply new to the possibilities of combining these degrees,” she says...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Joint Law and FAS Degree Program Satisfies Students of Two Minds | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...effect of the show or characterize its very rare and very deep success. One local reviewer praised nearly all elements of the production, from the lighting to the comedy to the notorious flying fairies, before confessing his “complicated” and “profoundly ambivalent?? reaction to the show. Most reviewers tended to dwell on the production’s “dark” and “eerie” aspects, commenting on the vast, gray, sooty wasteland of a set—bare except for three yawning graves?...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ART’s Dream Startles Audiences | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

This attitude—part resigned, part ambivalent??is typical of many Cambridge restaurant managers and owners who say they are waiting to see what types of effects the ban will have on their business...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Bars To Go Smoke-Free Starting Today | 10/1/2003 | See Source »

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