Word: dressere
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Girls must be taught to respect themselves, respect others and respect the rules of the institutions to which they belong. School dress codes can help set outer boundaries, but expect an adventurous dresser to go right to the edge. Parents must know that girls can be respectful and smart and still leave the house showing more skin than we would like them to. That's why we need to show them by example--the way my mother showed me in 1974--that we care more about the content of their character than about the clothes in their closet...
...DRESSER-TRUNK MADE FOR THOSE LIKE HER WHO SPEND THEIR LIFE ON THE ROAD
Persecution, oppression, humiliation, and above all, fear. Welcome to the lives of Molina (Stefan Atkinson '03) and Valentin (Stephen Toub '01), two men trapped in an Argentine prison. Molina, a gay window-dresser serving time for corrupting a minor, sits alone in his dark prison cell avoiding further torment from the warden and his frighteningly faithful guards when Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary, is thrust inside the room. Although Molina nurses his fellow prisoner back to health, their relationship becomes anything but friendly: Valentin, a suspected conspirator, wants nothing to do with the "dizzy," chattering Molina. But as this tale unfolds...
Even if I don't catch something spicy, anticipation keeps me hooked. Every time someone starts digging around in a dresser drawer or whispering in someone else's ear, I wonder what juicy tidbit I'll discover. I want to know what makes each person tick, which one will crack first and who will say nasty things behind someone else's back...
...devastating picture, Crissy, Dean and Linda Damm, daughter Crissy looks up at us from the bed she shares with her father and mother. On the shabby dresser beside her there's a hash pipe, a Pepsi bottle and a plastic statuette of the Virgin Mary. Her sleeping father's arm is wrapped around her, but his affections are probably a mixed blessing. At the center of the picture is the face of a girl literally hemmed in by a world she seems appalled to have realized is hers. She gazes upward from the debris with an expression somewhere between foreboding...