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...Hitler's last acts was to get married. His acquiescent mistress Eva Braun (the dictator was in fact impotent) had yearned for years for the respectability of a wedding license, and now she was to achieve it. She wore a black taffeta afternoon dress with two gold clasps at the shoulders. A minor party official with the coincidentally appropriate name of Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) was brought in from his militia post to perform the brief ceremony. As the law prescribed, both bride and groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch...
...ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance to the person who had entered the ring. His grin was continuous and worrisomely inappropriate--wider than chagrin--and his speech was more deliberate than distinct. His thoughts were...
...morning became a mini-White House, with a full complement of Secret Service and military guards and a hastily rigged press and TV briefing room. Donald Regan arrived at around 7 a.m., an hour before his boss woke up to shave. Nancy got there about 9, wearing an Adolfo dress in her favorite cheery red. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane had slipped in a side door a bit earlier. He gave Reagan, clad in lime green pajamas, his regular morning intelligence briefing, and several aides dropped by to discuss the weekly legislative calendar...
...friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...
Besides dance, the event featured a Cultural Fashion Extravaganza, showcasing a mix of traditional and modern Southeast Asian dress. Students sported everything from a Burmese princess’ dress to shorter, vibrant outfits designed by students from Wellesley...