Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having bartered my way into Harvard with an essay bemoaning the difficulty of being a "normal" gay person (or, better yet, "just a person") in face of drag queens and leather daddies, I can understand the repudiation of naughty queers who apparently embody the very homophobic stereotypes that wound us so badly. Why can't they just be normal, decent and respectable like...
...middle school locker), b) don't assume closeted people don't engage in naughty sex acts themselves, and c) being closeted or speaking in the name of the closeted doesn't necessarily authorize the abjection of people who have different sex lives than yours. Putting forth a "respectable face," while more palatable to the noblesse oblige of the Harvard community, leaves those still deemed indecent in the cold...
Well, if it worked once, maybe the powers that be might listen to another student's suggestion. One that will, guaranteed, result in an abrupt about-face of Loker's fortunes in ways unimaginable. The proposal is this: bring in outside fast-food chains to fill the place...
...overwhelmingly tactile. When Theodore Roosevelt walked into a room and when Reagan walked into a room, you could see people luxuriating in their physical aura. A lot of Hitler's power had to do with his strange beak, the fat curved back, awkward gestures and that hyptonisingly strange face. Never underestimate the power of the body in politics...
...Well, he's got a big body, but to me he's dull. He's got a dull body, a dull face. But bigness certainly helps--short guys have a very hard time--as we know with Michael Dukakis and Jimmy Carter...