Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Auditions for the Hasty Pudding Club's 146th annual production took an unusual turn yesterday when a woman, Winsome S. Brown '95, tried out for a part in the traditionally all-male drag comedy...
...evil which caused them. It's lucky for them that they have not only each other, but also some good stories to tell. Ironically, it is Zenia who ends up as the unifying thread of their experience. This Robber-Bridegroom, in the shape of a svelte Bluebeard in drag, may be the most delectably detestable character in any novel this year. And that in itself is not a wholly evil thing...
...guise of a life-size nutcracker. Marie and the Nutcracker are then carried off to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, where they are entertained by dancers of every country and candy imaginable. The dancers are talented, notable performers including Arabian Coffee and Mother Ginger in drag with her brood hidden under her skirt...
...received romanticized treatment in such landmark novels as Our Lady of Flowers and The Thief's Journal. What Genet lacked in moral acuity he made up for in artistic originality. His novels dealt with subjects most French readers of his day found seedy at best: drag queens, hustlers, thieves, sailors having sex with each another. But he wrote these stories in a highly ornamental prose which dazzled readers and made him a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacommetti. As the usually modest Genet put it in a moment of pride, "There was the French language...
...does not look kindly on working moms, and Miranda cannot find a suitable nanny to tend the kids while she pursues her high-powered career in interior design. Thus, out of mutual need, but without Miranda's conscious participation, Mrs. Doubtfire -- that is to say, Daniel in old-lady drag and affecting a Scots accent -- is born. In this role, Daniel not only brings order to a fractured household; he also brings a new orderliness to his own life...