Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recipes, a lexicon and a chapter on "Beauty and Fashion Tips for the Aspirin' Transvestite." Whatever anyone thinks of her life-style, Chablis has a way with words. She describes one woman she meets as "eight miles of bad road, from the nun's neckline of her tacky new dress down to those Li'l Debbie Snackin' Cake pumps." Move over, George Sand...
...agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver won a Senate seat and a passel of presidential primaries when...
Russell and Reeves differ in gender, race, sexual orientation, background, style of dress, political philosophy and their approach to running this diverse city of 100,000 residents...
...shirt not only helps me identify other members of the group, but also serves as a familiar beacon for first-years seeking help or advice. Similarly, the FUP T-shirt and the Currier and Mower shirts communicate to those both inside and outside the group. They provide a uniform dress so members of each group can feel bonded to each other while at the same time conveying a message about their interests to others who see and read the shirt...
...When Army came to play Harvard, we had to sit on the other side. We were told to dress up in our uniforms, parade around and all the time we were Harvard students," MacPherson recalls with a laugh...