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...positively jinxed. The royal chapel wasn't licensed for civil weddings, so they had to switch to a public hall; the Queen didn't attend the actual ceremony; the Pope's funeral postponed it all by a day. But in the end the crowd cheered warmly, and Camilla's dress got thumbs up. Did a coach and horses then whisk the couple away? No, a car did; their royal relatives actually clambered onto buses for the Queen's reception. Who says the monarchy can't modernize...
...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...
...instance, 'Goodbye' opens with a woman striding toward the viewer. Her hourglass figure—white with a shimmering black dress on a black background—drips with sensuality reality can never deliver. Next page: she is wrapped in only a sheet, he’s naked and wiping the booze off his chin. The rectangular text blocks say everything we all dream: “I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. She sounds like she means it.” Two pages later the woman is dead...
...most secure between the pipes. Junior netminder Ali Boe returns for her senior year as the school’s all-time leader in shutouts and hopefully still riding a season-ending hot streak that pushed Harvard into its third consecutive proverbial bridesmaid’s dress...
DIED. JOHNNIE COCHRAN, 67, savvy, media-friendly attorney renowned for his resplendent dress and seemingly effortless charm with juries; of an inoperable brain tumor diagnosed in 2003; at his home in Los Angeles. Born in Shreveport, La., a great-grandson of slaves, Cochran won recognition after suing police departments for abuse in the 1960s and proudly displayed copies of his plaintiffs' multimillion-dollar checks in his office. His fame crested in 1995 after his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, against seemingly overwhelming evidence, of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Cochran's signature line, a reference...