Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Band emerges from the Freshman Union and takes up formation on one side of the street, just as the real cast, fourteen men in drag--one in a scuba suit, another in an exquisite white wedding gown--pirouette down Mass. Ave. and into the den of reporters. These remarkable beauties are photographed like zoo animals and interviewed sarcastically. The little gymnasts become so excited that they start to jump up and down in tandem, forming a huge black wave on Harvard Street. Two juniors dressed as cows, complete with rubber udders, saunter onto the scene...
...stage is set, and the divine vehicle arrives--a shiny red Saab convertible. The deity's muses, those fourteen drag queens, surround the Saab like the presidential Secret Service. We await for Catwoman's descent from the heavens...
...would like not to have to drag a suitcase full of books home for the holidays, only to drag it back with many of the books unopened. However, moving exams before break is not the best solution to this dilemma. Many students simply do not have the time to complete all their work during the regular class schedule and also prepare for exams without a sufficient break...
...makes a difference, however, that the Democrats of '92 were trying to push their party to the middle. The G.O.P. newcomers are pulling an already conservative party further to the right. The question is whether on some issues they will drag it too far for most voters to follow. In a Time/CNN poll, 71% of those surveyed agree with the freshmen in opposing loan guarantees for Mexico. But just 22% want to see the assault-weapons ban overturned...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...