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...decrepit apartment buildings. Elderly Vietnamese women sit frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fiancée back in the States, not to pick...
...idea of getting together to dress up like the poor and disadvantaged for fun isn’t limited to this campus: so-called “white trash” parties are now thrown on campuses around the country. Attendees have been known to black out their teeth, wear shirts with beer and hunting slogans or make pointed jokes about incest...
...should not look at 19th century images through modern eyes, finding sex where the Victorians saw only creamy innocence. But however you might describe Carroll's famous picture of Alice, 7, costumed as a sultry beggar girl, girlish is not the word. Her liquid posture, that off-the-shoulder dress, the frank suction of her gaze--innocence this luscious could almost have an R rating. From here to the foxy cowgirl outfits of JonBenet Ramsey isn't a stretch. While Prose doubts that Carroll was an active pedophile, she does not deny the erotic longing in his pictures. "Where...
...When I graduated I think I had hair down around my shoulders and remember walking in the parade and watching the representatives of the Overseers and the Corporation in their funny outfits and just thinking, ‘Good Lord, what would ever lead anyone to dress up like that...
...glimmer of hope may be in sight. The locals are determined to continue using the museum for other as yet unspecified projects that would raise money for children's causes, thus keeping Hepburn's memory alive. Some of the actress's memorabilia will remain, such as her famous black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany's, donated by the French designer Hubert de Givenchy. "As difficult as it will be to see Audrey's things disappear, we don't want to start a war in Tolochenaz," Price says. "Maybe we should just let her rest in peace." So there...