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Last Saturday Lowell Lecture Hall looked more like drag night at a European discotheque than a venue of higher education as members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team got their cross-dress on as part of the group’s annual Harvard-Radcliffe challenge. The H-R challenge, which caps off the Ballroom Dance Team’s fall novice tournament, pits the veteran members of the Ballroom Dance Team against each other in a battle of the sexes to determine whether kings or queens reign over Harvard’s dance floors. Apparently Harvard’s three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater at Harvard | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...know why Bryan Giles wore a skirt to school. I can't even remember why I did. The point is, there shouldn't have to be a reason. Battling against those who wish to cross-dress is unproductive and senseless. It's fashionable these days to be libertarian about most social issues; there's no reason not to be libertarian about fashion...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: Skirting By | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...Shlemiel the First" is in fact meant to be novelty, and little else. Wives battle their husbands; men cross-dress; pickles and common Yiddish expressions are tossed around as stage gags. The trite phrases and cliched idioms that dominate prove poor substitutes for content. The company is forced to play out their roles with over-enthusiastic and sometimes spastic fervency...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clarinets Captivate but No Surprises From Silly Shlemiel | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...central conceit here is that Romeo and Juliet are both just horny, whiny teenagers, and that Romeo is actually gay. Thus both lovers fall for Constance, thinking her to be a boy, and both cross-dress to gain her attention, leading to gems such as: "Doth no one in Verona sail straight...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...essence of the fashion doyenne played by Lauren Bacall? That she is color-blind, and that her friends apparently don't tell her she's wearing shoes of different shades. Why is Danny Aiello, as a buyer for a Chicago store, in the film? So he can cross-dress in a Chanel suit. At 60, Loren looks great, in or out of her array of glorious millinery, but it's cruel to have her and Mastroianni reprise the strip-tease scene from Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with a cheap new punch line. Kellerman must endure the same naked shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Stiletto Heel | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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