Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great job for deviant human beings...
...what deviant behavior might one of these rapscallions engage in? Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III is quick to answer with a sinister suggestion. "In the past people have used the College grounds as bathrooms, and people have slept in corridors and the like," Epps says...
What the picture shows is an attempt to look as tarty as possible in an impossibly safe-sex world. "There's a blurring of the boundary between the taboo and what's acceptable," says author Valerie Steele (Women of Fashion), "with a constant testing of deviant or sexual styles." The effect is that of the "naughty schoolgirl" -- somewhat more innocent than that found in a child-porn magazine, but suggestive of it nonetheless...
...piano bench so low that the played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 bottles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused to work for him, because they thought he was a sexual deviant. These firsthand stories slyly poke fun at the many critics and commentators who have attempted to offer the authoritative word on Gould...
...civil rights movement that until then had few public adherents and scant hope of success. It launched a social revolution that is still changing the way Americans see many of their most basic institutions -- family, church, schools, the military, media and culture, among them. A group long dismissed as deviant or perverted or simply beneath mention has been able to claim a sizable space in national life, to the joy of its members and the continuing consternation of many fellow citizens. Declaring oneself to be gay is no longer an automatic admission that psychotherapy is needed or an abandonment...